Mercedes Eng is the author of Mercenary English, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and my yt mama. Her writing has appeared in the Lambda-nominated anthology Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry, Jacket 2, Asian American Literary Review, The Abolitionist, r/ally (No One Is Illegal), and Survaillance and M’aidez (Press Release).