Maurice Moore, PhD, received their Doctor of Philosophy in Performance Studies from the University of California, and a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina. Their works have appeared in COmmunication and Critical Cultural/Studies, Decoded Pride, ObsidianLit, VERSAL EDITIONS, and Poetry Foundation. Since 2011, they have exhibited at the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) in London, Calabar Gallery in New York, Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, and Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in Davis, California. Moore’s publications include Drawing While Black Mixtape Vol. 1, a collection of visual poems that explore various types of quare mark making.