A. Light Zachary is a writer, editor, and artist. They live in Canada.

Light is a Lambda Literary Fellow and an autistic, queer human. They are also the author of The End, by Anna, a novella.

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In their stunning debut collection, A. Light Zachary draws power from a vision of life—especially queer and neurodivergent life—as a journey of continuous self-realization. These poems record the experience of locating oneself over and over again, within gender, language, family, labour, sexuality, fear, and love. Reaching back to claim queer space in the oldest Western canon, Zachary interrupts famous quotations from ancient Greek and Roman thinkers, asking: what advice might Juvenal or Seneca have handed down to non-binary citizens? Elsewhere, in concise and fluid verses that draw from punk rock and quantum physics, they ground the work firmly in the present. Come: invade with the alien. Evade with the coyote. These poems propose a certain supremacy: in these unending journeys of discovery and alienation, "We become more sure of who we are than you."