Colby Flade (he/him) is a queer writer, artist, avid drinker of
coffee, and student based in Chicago. He is the author of The Smell of
the Light Blue House in Summertime (2021), Menthol (2022), Short Sweet
Simple: Love Poems (Bottlecap Press, 2022), and The Fly & Odor (Beyond
Words Literary, 2023).