Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit (The Cupboard Pamphlet) and the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child (Counterpoint). His writing about queer and trans family life has been in Harper’s Bazaar, Granta, Guernica, and elsewhere. Krys received his BA from Swarthmore College, his MEd in Special Education from Arcadia University, and his MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Michigan University. He is the memoir editor of Split Lip Magazine. He is currently the Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence at the University of Minnesota and lives in St. Paul with his partner and their four young children.