Phoebe Nerem is a creative writer and visual artist based in Chicago, Illinois. Their work explores queerness, feeling crazy, and having a romantic fascination with fire. Despite all odds they earned their Bachelor's at DePaul University. Their artistic and written work has been published in The Orange Couch Literary Magazine, Crook and Folly, Emotional Alchemy, Swim Press Magazine, Pink Apple Press, and Humankind Zine. Now, Phoebe continues to feel crazy and ravenously reads, writes, and makes artwork for the hell of it.