JH Grimes is an Appalachian trans poet and collage artist. The author of keepsake (Bottlecap Press, 2024), their work also appears in Poetry Wales, poets.org, Devastation Baby, Meniscus, and elsewhere. They are the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and a Bread Loaf residency. A second-year MFA at the University of Virginia, they work to center the trans experience in explorations of class struggle, climate disaster, and queer intimacy.