this is my stop by nat raum

nat raum (they/them, b. 1996) is a queer disabled artist and writer based on unceded Piscataway and Susquehannock land in Baltimore, MD. They graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a BFA in Photography and Book Arts and hold an MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from The University of Baltimore, where they also served as managing editor of both the school’s literary journal, Welter, and student-run press, Plork Press.

nat’s published books include the full-length collections you stupid slut (dream boy book club, 2022), the abyss is staring back (Querencia Press, 2023), random access memory (Bullshit Lit, 2023), and this book will not save you (dogleech books, 2024); the chapbooks preparatory school for the end of the world (self-published, 2021), specter dust (Bullshit Lit, 2022), the fine line (kith books, 2022), self portrait as several clusters of stars (Bottlecap Press, 2023), nat raum burns in hell! (Ghost City Press, 2023), inside baseball (back room poetry, 2023), salt box (kith books, 2024), foundwaves (A Moonlit Café, 2024), camera indomita (self-published, 2024), and WANT (ink & ivy lit, 2025); and the photography publications waver / quiver (fifth wheel press, 2020) and pool paintings (themselves press, 2023).

nat is an avid fan of ambient music, open-world RPGs, indica-dominant hybrids, noise-cancelling headphones, and bisexual lighting, preferably all at once.