Sasha Torchinsky is a queer Jewish writer & artist born and raised in Vancouver, B.C. on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. Sasha is inspired by James Baldwin, reality television, and freaks everywhere. They were long listed for the PRISM International Creative Non-Fiction Prize and their work has appeared in Filling Station, Storm Cellar, and *82 Review.