Octavio R. González is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Wellesley College. He teaches courses on American queer literature and culture, British and American modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, and the twentieth-century novel. González is a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow. His lit crit monograph, Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel, was published in the Refiguring Modernism imprint from Pennsylvania State University Press (2020). His poetry has appeared in Lambda Literary Poetry Spotlight, Puerto Del Sol, The Latino Book Review, OCHO, Anomaly, HIV±Here and Now, Lambda Literary’s Emerge Anthology, Writing on the Moon, Mass. Poetry on the T, and other journals and anthologies. Poems from Limerence have been finalists and long listed for Gival Press’ Oscar Wilde Poetry Award (2021) and Palette Poetry’s “Love & Eros” prize (2022).