Gia Gonzales is a poet based in New York City, where she was born. Her work has most recently appeared in baest: a journal of queer forms and affects, Femmescapes, Bomb Cyclone: A Journal of Ecopoetics, and variously with the Poetry Project. She is the author of the chapbook RENDER SLEAZE  (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2023) and is currently the managing editor at Nightboat Books.