Mr. J Mase III
J Mase III is a black/trans/queer poet based newly in Seattle by way of NYC. Mase is author of "If I Should Die Under the Knife, Tell My Kidney I was the Fiercest Poet Around" as well as "And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer's Reflections on Grief, Unemployment and Inappropriate Jokes About Death."
As an educator, J Mase has worked with thousands of community members in the US, the UK and Canada on the needs of LGBTQIA youth and adults in spaces such as k-12 schools, universities, faith communities and restricted care facilities among others. He is the founder of the international performance tour Cupid Ain't @#$%!: An Anti-Valentine's Day Poetry Movement and of awQward, the first ever trans & queer people of color specific talent agency.
J Mase III is co-editor and co-facilitator of the Black Trans Prayer Book