mai c. doan is a mixed-race poet, dreamer, and heartworker. she is the author of transgression: things i have learned from my body, self-published under Hematite Press and has performed in the National Queer Arts Festival, RADAR reading series, SPD’s Conditional Love, and more. mai is committed to poetry that is both necessary and responsive and finds comradery in works by women and queer writers of color enacting radical uses of language to create and complicate the telling of our rage, bodies, histories, and desires. mai loves dancing, slow mornings, and warm nights, and holds an MFA from Mills College where she attended as a Community Engagement Fellow.