“A lot of the things that I do are half for myself because I need to do it, and half for other people because I feel there’s a need for it out there.”

-Van Binfa

Joseph Jess Rey is a queer Chicano writer and scholar, born and raised in Los Angeles. He received his B.A. from UCLA in Literature with honors in 2019. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and has been published in Emerge, the 2019 Lambda Fellows Anthology, as well as A&U Magazine. Rey is currently working on multiple projects but is more so focused on living through a global pandemic.