H. Melt is a poet and artist whose work proudly documents Chicago's queer and trans communities. Their writing has been published by many places including The Feminist Wire, The Offing, and Them, the first trans literary journal in the United States. They are the author of The Plural, The Blurring. H. Melt works at the Poetry Foundation and Chicago's feminist bookstore.
"I want for people to have some sort of archive of their dance, night, poetry, and art spaces. I want us to remember what keeps/kept us alive when the rainbow flags and assimilation try to steamroll over the complexity of our lives." Read More
"This book has been in me my whole life. And I'd say what inspired it was the need to celebrate the genius of how I survived and survive a world that is consistently telling me I'm not welcome." Read More
"...I don’t think feeling fragmented is necessarily a thing to seek to eliminate! Feelings, even unpleasant ones, can be a source of knowledge and intelligence." Read More
"I’ve Got a Time Bomb is a trans punk road novel that is not for the faint of heart. It is not for the politically or grammatically correct. It is not a respectable trans book and that is a good thing." Read More
"[Fake] asks us not only to honor and remember our queer history, but to use it as inspiration for constructing queer spaces in the present." Read More