Edgar Gomez’s writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Longreads, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere in print and online. He is the recipient of the 2018 Marcia McQuern Award in Nonfiction and completed his MFA at the University of California, Riverside. He is working on his first book, High-Risk Homosexual, a collection of autobiographical stories about the dangerous places queer people inhabit, and how we find our way out of them. His website is EdgarGomez.net and he is @highriskhomo across social.