Andie Sheridan (he/they) is a trans Chinese/American poet and educator with an MFA from University of Massachusetts, Boston. His poetry is influenced by the experience of being a transracial adoptee and more recently he has shifted to focus his writing on the dangers and difficulties of navigating the American healthcare system from the perspective of a trans patient. Andie is the author of the microchapbook My Mustache Which Is Very Young, published online by Fifth Wheel Press. His work has also been featured in Dilettante Army, The Journal, and with Mass Poetry, among others.
“5/ Getting on implied that / testosterone had a seat for me to sit upon, / was a place to rest. / Was possibly a waiting equine / already saddled up— / her brown nose breaking my heart.”