Patty Gone is a poet, artist, and scholar. She is the author of Love Life (Mount Analogue, 2019), and her writing has appeared in The Believer, Hyperallergic, Art Papers, and jubilat. She has performed or been exhibited at the Queens Museum, Locust Projects, Human Resources, The Poetry Project, and Smack Mellon, and has received support from Mass MoCA, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women. She lives in Los Angeles.