Cyrus Simonoff
Cyrus Simonoff’s writing and reporting on grassroots anti-prison organizing and trans politics and aesthetics has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Magazine, Truthout and the Intercept, among other publications and anthologies. He is the author of A Year Without a Name (2019), and finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a member of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners.
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The Want
Cyrus Simonoff
‘It’s often in the morning that the want is biggest. The want is to wake up, lazy and horizontal, and have it.’