Rain Prud’homme-Cranford (formerly Goméz), PhD, is a FAT-tastically queer disAbled poet-scholar-teacher-musician-artist whose works centers Louisiana Creole culture and fat, gender, trauma/resilience, and Gulf ecologies studies. She is the author of Miscegenation Roundance: Poèmes Historiques (Mongrel Empire Press, 2021), author and coeditor of Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community (University of Washington Press, 2022), and author of Smoked Mullet Cornbread Crawdad Memory (MEP, 2012, as Rain C. Goméz). Her academic and creative works have been published in scholarly and critical journals including Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond (LSU Press), Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies (LSUP), The Southern Literary Journal, Louisiana Folklife, Mississippi Quarterly, Bulbancha Is Still a Place: Indigenous Culture from New Orleans, Plume, Sovereign Traces Vol 2: Relational Constellations, Anomaly, and others.

Prud’homme-Cranford is an associate professor of English, creative writing, and international indigenous studies at the University of Calgary and is the executive editor, publisher, and “Book Doula” of That Painted Horse Press: A Borderless BIPOC Press of the Americas. Most important, she is an auntie, a partner, a daughter, a sister, a cousin, and an adoptive mom to two of the coolest, kindest kiddos. When not working in Alberta, she and her partner split their time between family/homescapes in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Florida.