Jillian Weise is a poet, performance artist and disability rights activist. She is the author of Cyborg Detective (BOA, 2019), The Book of Goodbyes (BOA, 2013), which won the Isabella Gardner Award and the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and The Amputee’s Guide to Sex (Soft Skull Press, 2007), which was recently reissued in a 10th anniversary edition. Weise identifies as a cyborg, and her essays on cyborg identity and disability rights have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, and elsewhere. She hosts a series of satirical videos highlighting literary ableism under the persona Tispy Tullivan. For more information, visit www.jillianweise.com.