Almah LaVon Rice (@agentsubrosa) was born and raised near the Ohio River and now lives at its headwaters. Her work has appeared in Colorlines, Lambda Literary Report, Tomboyz Quarterly, Washington Blade, The Feminist Wire, Color Bloq, Xtra Magazine, Oh Reader Magazine, Airbnb Online Magazine, and GUTS: A Canadian Feminist Magazine, among numerous other publications. Her writing has also been published in the Lambda Literary Award-winning does your mama know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (revised edition); Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries; Solace: Writing, Refuge, and LGBTQ Women of Color; and Black to the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing. Her fiction is forthcoming in Unfettered Hexes: Queer Tales of Insatiable Darkness.