Ayden LeRoux is a queer writer, critic, and educator from New England. Her work explores embodiment, eroticism, and illness, in order to complicate narratives about gender, sexuality, ability, and family structures. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, Bookforum, Catapult, Electric Lit, Entropy, Guernica, Lit Hub, and Los Angeles Review of Books, and was honored as Notable in Best American Essays 2021.