Jo Barchi is a writer and editor living in Chicago. They are the Midwest Editor at Joyland Magazine. Their poems and essays have previously appeared in Tagvverk, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Social text Journal, Bright Wall, Dark Room, and Triangle House Review, and We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics published by Nightboat Books in 2020 (edited by Kay Gabriel and Andrea Abi-Karam).