Marcos Gonsalez is a writer and doctoral candidate in English Language and Literature based in New York City. His memoir about coming of the queer son of an undocumented Mexican immigrant and Puerto Rican mother in white America, Pedro’s Theory, is forthcoming with Melville House. His essays have appeared in Electric Literature, Ploughshares, Inside Higher Education, Ploughshares, Catapult, The New Inquiry, and elsewhere.