Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, essayist, and cultural strategist. They are the 2022 winner of the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry by the Foundation of Contemporary Art. Barrett’s second poetry collection, More Than Organs received a 2021 Stonewall Book Honor Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Finalist in Transgender poetryy. They have featured at The Lincoln Center, The U.N., Symphony Space, The Poetry Project, Princeton University, NYU, The Dodge Poetry Foundation, The Hemispheric Institute, Brooklyn Museum, and more. They’ve received fellowship invitations from MacDowell, Lambda Literary, Monson Arts, Drunken Boat, VONA, The Home School, VCCA, and Macondo. They are a 3x Pushcart Prize nominee and 2x Best of the Net nominee. Their contributions are found in The New York Times, The Advocate, F(r)iction, The Lily, Asian American Literary Review, Vogue, PBS News Hour, The Rumpus, NYLON, The Maine Review, Academy of American Poets, NYLON, WBAI Radio, NPR, and more. They have written two poetry books, When The Chant Comes (Topside Press, 2016) and More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020). They currently reside in Jersey City with their jowly dog.