Incite: Queer Writers Read -July

Vinnie’s love for books began in the second grade, when he worked with his fellow students to write and illustrate a story about the adventures of an ice-cream-loving giraffe. Since then he has worked as a writer, editor, book designer, publisher, workshop presenter, and college instructor. He is the editor of Fashionably Late: Gay, Bi, and Trans Men Who Came Out Later in Life and the author of A Little Bit of Advice for Self-Publishers.

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Jennifer (JP) Perrine is the author of five award-winning books of poetry: Beautiful Outlaw, Again, The Body Is No Machine, In the Human Zoo, and No Confession, No Mass. Their other recent work appears in Best Small Fictions, A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid Lit Collection, and Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, and Poetry. A two-time winner of Arts and Culture Diversity and Inclusion Awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, Perrine lives in Portland, Oregon, where they cohost the Incite: Queer Writers Read series, perform stand-up comedy, and work as the equity and racial justice program manager for Metro Parks and Nature.

Eliot Feenstra (he/they) is a long-time community organizer, facilitator, performer, teacher, poet, and gardener. He grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and lived and worked in rural southwestern Oregon for over a decade before recently relocating to Portland. He has co-founded multiple collaborative projects including Versailles (a queer land project), Whirlwind (24-hour play festivals), and RiverStars (a school-based devised theater initiative). Eliot holds an MA in performance studies from York University and a BA in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Chicago. He manages projects for Oregon’s Kitchen Table, leads facilitation trainings with Oregon Humanities, and serves as the co-chair of the governance committee for the Queer Data Project, a statewide research project with the LGBTQIA2S+ community in Oregon.

Grey Traynor is a transfemme, nonbinary writer who has been published in Time Out San Francisco, Beacon Quarterly, Gold Man Review, Doubleback Review, BULL, and ouch! collective. They will be attending the Tin House Workshop (Summer 2025) and can be found on Instagram @greytraynor and at www.greytraynor.gay