Fuck the Big Five

Chloé Caldwell is the author of national bestseller, Women (2024), and her next book, Trying (2025), is forthcoming from Graywolf. She is also the author of the books I’ll Tell You In Person (2016), The Red Zone (2022), and Legs Get Led Astray (2012). Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, Bon Appétit, The Cut, Vice, Longreads, Nylon, The Rumpus, The Sun, and half a dozen anthologies including Goodbye To All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving NYC; Without A Net: The Female Experience of Growing Up Working Class; and Sluts.

Mia Arias Tsang is a writer, freelance editor, and former biologist. She is an alum of the 2023 Tin House Summer Workshop and from 2018-2020 served as editor- in-chief of Broad Recognition, Yale’s intersectional feminist magazine. Her writing is heavily informed by her lived experiences as a queer Asian-Latina woman and deals with themes of identity and loss. She serves as Copy Editor for Identity Theory Magazine and Program Coordinator for House of SpeakEasy. Mia’s work has been published in Autostraddle, Copy, Half Mystic Press, VelvetPark Media, Bullshit Lit, and elsewhere. Less formal, more personal musings on media and sexuality can also be found on her blog, Overripe Peach.

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of Touching the Art, Washington State Book Award and Pacific Northwest Book Award finalist; The Freezer Door, New York Times Editors’ Choice, one of Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, & finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; Sketchtasy, one of NPR’s Best Books of 2018; The End of San Francisco, winner of the Lambda Literary Award; & others. She is the editor of multiple nonfiction anthologies, including Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis, one of BookRiot’s 100 Most Influential Queer Books of All Time. Her work appears in New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, BOMB, Bookforum, The Baffler, n+1, Ploughshares, LitHub, Truthout, Utne Reader, AlterNet, Bitch, Bookslut, Denver Quarterly, & many more.

Christoph Paul is the editor-in-chief of CLASH Books. He writes fiction, YA, horror, bizarro fiction, and poetry including: The Passion of the Christoph, Great White House Volume 1 and Volume
2, A Confederacy of Hot Dogs, Slasher Camp for Nerd Dorks, Sportscenter Poems, Horror Film Poems, At Least I Get You < In My Art, and The Haunting of the Para- normal Romance Awards. He edited the anthologies Walk Hand in Hand Into Extinction: Stories Inspired by True Detective and This Book Ain’t Nuttin to Fuck With: A Wu-Tang Tribute Anthology, and he is the singer/songwriter of The Dionysus Effect.

Brian Gresko is a writer, illustrator, and literary journalist, and educator. Their most recent book is You Must Go On: 30 Inspirations on Writing & Creativity. They co-run Pete’s Reading Series, Brooklyn’s longest running literary venue, and co-founded Writing Co-Lab, a teaching cooperative, through which they conceived and curated 100 Days of Creative Resistance, a project that delivered a free email of opposition and encouragement from a different author for the first 100 days of the current Trump regime.