Gabe Montesanti and Eileen G’Sell

Gabe Montesanti (she/they) is a queer writer and artist who resides in St. Louis, Missouri. She is the author of Brace for Impact: A Memoir (2022), which chronicles her time skating for Arch Rival Roller Derby. Gabe has been a competitive swimmer, a drag artist, and an educator. She was raised in the working-class Midwest. Eileen G’Sell is a poet and culture critic whose work focuses on gender, sexuality, and economic class. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry, Fence, The Rumpus, and The Boston Review; recent essays have appeared in The Baffler, Los Angeles Review of Books, Current Affairs, Jacobin, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. She serves as movie critic for The Hopkins Review and is a frequent contributor to Hyperallergic and Reverse Shot. In 2023, she received the Rabkin Foundation Award for Visual Arts Journalism. Lipstick, her first book of nonfiction, joined Bloomsbury’s Object Lessons series in early 2026. She teaches writing and media studies at Washington University in St. Louis.