Meet the Mechanist

Elizabeth R. McClellan is a disabled gender/queer demisexual poet writing on unceded Quapaw and Chickasha Yaki land in what settlers call the Mid-South. In their other life, they are a domestic and sexual violence attorney working with Latinx immigrant survivors to provide holistic civil legal services. They are a previous winner of the Naked Girls Reading Literary Honors Award, and a multiple time and current Rhysling Award nominee. Their work has appeared previously in Strange Horizons, as well as in Apex Magazine, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Chrome Baby, Goblin Fruit, Stone Telling, Utopia Science Fiction, Apparition Lit, Illumen Magazine, Mirror Dance, Eternal Haunted Summer and many others. Work from them is forthcoming at Nightmare Magazine and Kaleidotrope. They can be found on Twitter and elsewhere as @popelizbet and on Patreon at patreon.com/ermcclellan.