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As a devout student of José Esteban Muñoz’s conceptions of queer cultural and political (re)imagination, I am often thinking about futurity and queer futurity in particular in the ways I structure my own life but also in the art I most like to seek out and burrow into.
Few of us look back fondly on adolescence, but it is tougher for some people than others. On the cusp of her teenage years, Jiordan Castle’s father was arrested and incarcerated. In her debut book, Disappearing Act, Jiordan relives her adolescence, intertwining the usual concerns of first love and turbulent friendships with this familial cataclysm.
Emily Mirengoff is a Fiction Editor and Social Media Editor at TriQuarterly. Her fiction has or will soon appear in the Santa Monica Review, Story, Lunch Ticket, Sonora Review, and Cola Literary Review. She has attended the Bread Loaf and Kenyon Review Writers Workshops. She resides outside of Washington, D.C. and is at work on her first novel.