Jenn Tillman, Poly
Poly is a Twitch streamer, content creator (primarily on YouTube), advocate for disabled and LGBTQ+ communities, and writer. Her passions include mental health, discussions on perspective and personal experiences, and individual growth and development. She's obsessed with life-long learning and in-depth study of various topics. Poly, fittingly, has many sides to her identity.
Her professional interests center on quality assurance and accessibility, with professional experience as a quality assurance engineer and accessibility testing/expertise.
Content-wise, Poly hopes to focus on creating an "empowered reality." She is critical of toxic positivity and the way it advocates that we ignore the human need for vulnerability and connection or the harsh realities of daily life. Poly instead hopes to focus on empowering those around her while emphasizing what's real and within our grasp for change, growth, and development. This looks different for everyone, and it's a continuous process, but it's an ideal worth creating a community around.
Katie Quill
Katie Quill has been writing professionally for several years now and is eager to branch out into other forms of short fiction and nonfiction. She has way too mny thoughts about the state of media today and needs an outlet or her friends and family are going to stage an intervention. She enjoys reading old fairy tales, heartfelt manga, and books about the creative process. Horror keeps her up at night but is one of her favorite things in the world.
Specializing in speculative fiction - fantasy, science fiction, and horror - Katie has spent several years building up a reputation for fictional stories about trans folks, their struggles, and their accomplishments as she develops her skills, some of which have been included in group bundles with highly-regarded transgender writers in the online space. You can find much of her publicly available work through ScribbleHub and Itch.io.
Her first published novel from early in her career, Revolution of Wild Magic, can be found on Amazon and other online retailers. Her second book, Katie Quill's Tiny Trans Tale, Volume 1, likewise has an Amazon and Books2Read page.