Valentines: “12 Seconds” by Jess X. Snow

Photographer: Gerardo Ciprián.

About Jess X. Snow

Jess X. Snow (they/them) is a writer/director, multi-disciplinary artist, poet and fiction writer of the Jiangxi Chinese diaspora. Spanning large scale murals, narrative films, protest posters, and children's books—their body of work explores a radical migrant imagination, non-binary desire, mental (un)wellness, kinship across cultures and species, and abolitionist futures. They hold an MFA in film from NYU and their short films have been seen in festivals across the world. They are the author and illustrator of the forthcoming picture book, We Always Had Wings, (Make Me a World / Randomhouse). Their poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and published in the Asian American Literary Review, The Offing, and the anthologies: Bettering American Poetry and Nepantla: An Anthology of Queer Poets of Color. Currently they are writing their debut YA novel and full length book of poems. (www.jessxsnow.com)