HAL SCHRIEVE is a children's librarian in Manhattan and the best part of hir job is facilitating comics and creative writing workshops with young people. Ze is the author of the YA novels How to Get Over the End of the World and Out of Salem, which was longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Hal's comics are featured in We're Still Here, an all-trans comics anthology, and the zine Very Online. Hir comic Vivian's Ghost was on the shortlist for Comics Beat's 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize Award for Best Webcomic. Originally from Olympia, WA, Hal now lives in New York. Follow Hal at @howlmarin on Instagram and @hal_schrieve on Twitter.