Write about a person using only descriptive language and imagery about their voice.

Editor’s note: for extra points, write a sonnet.

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Bridget Gordon (she/her, fae/faer) is a queer trans woman and emerging poet based in Chicago. A former MFA student and sports journalist, faer poetry is enraptured with queer longing, identity, liminality, and desire. She has past or forthcoming publications in Moist Poetry Journal, TRANS MAG, Pink Poetry Club, and Coin-Operated Press. Fae is the author of the self-published chapbook, the rest is up to you, love, available Summer 2026. Her debut full-length poetry collection, if you know the color of their eyes it’s already too late, will be published by Raging Opossum Press in Fall 2026. Fae lives with her husband, metamour, cats, a blue electric guitar named Evie, and an ominously large TBR pile.