Maxe Crandall is a poet, playwright, and director who works on and through poets theater, dance, and trans queer affect. His performance novel The Nancy Reagan Collection (Futurepoem) made the New York Public Library's Best Poetry Books of 2020, Lit Hub‘s 65 Favorite Books of 2020, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. Maxe is Associate Director of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stanford University.