hanta t. samsa is a transgenre poet and writer who situates his work in a genealogy of disability poetics, ecopoetics, transpoetics, and post-colonial futurisms. he holds an mfa in fiction from bennington college and an mfa in poetry from virginia tech. his writing appears or is forthcoming in boston review, kenyon review, salt hill journal and smoke and mold, sometimes under his dead name. hanta is a lambda emerging voices fellow and his chapbook, transcolonial poem, is forthcoming from new american press this spring.