Charlie Miller is a New York born, Boston based, and Baltimore bound writer, scholar, educator, and aspiring disney villain who is dedicated to youth and youth literature from many angles. He received his BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College in 2014 and just graduated from Simmons University with an MLS and an MA in Children’s Literature. He is interested in representations of queerness, mental illness, disability, and religion in youth literature, particularly in fantasy and horror. Right now, he is working on a novel about a queen bee, a doppelgänger, and the complexities of trans male experience.