Raymond Luczak, a native of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is the author and editor of many books, including "Flannelwood," "The Kinda Fella I Am," and the award-winning Deaf gay novel "Men with Their Hands. "Some LGBTQ titles that he's edited over the years include "QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology" and "Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman." His book once upon a twin: poems was listed as a Top Ten U.P. Notable Book of the Year for 2021. His most recent title was "A Quiet Foghorn: More Notes from a Deaf Gay Life." An inaugural Zoeglossia Fellow, he lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.