Grant Chemidlin is a queer American poet living in Los Angeles. He is the author of the chapbook New in Town (Bottlecap Press, 2022) and the collections What We Lost in the Swamp (Central Avenue Poetry, 2023), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, and In the Middle of a Better World (Central Avenue Poetry, 2026). He has also been a finalist for the Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award and the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. His poems and essays appear in The Los Angeles Review, Palette Poetry, and Quarterly West.
