Frankie Balzano (he/him) is a queer poet weaving weird stories and alchemizing the horrors into words on the internet. He is the author of the chapbook Spider Rodeo (Bottlecap Press, 2022). His work has appeared in Same Faces Collective, Sunday Mornings at the River Press, Angel Rust Magazine, Driftwood Press, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Oyster River Pages, among others. He lives with his wife and chihuahua in Olympia, Washington.