Syr Hayati Beker is a queer nonbinary Turkish-American writer, immersive experience creator, horror nerd, and transmedia artist in search of the queer love language of climate change. They are a graduate of Clarion West, SFSU’s MFA, and Lambda’s Emerging Writers Fellowship. They are the co-founder of Queer Cat Productions performing arts company and The Escapery Collective. Their work appears in Joyland, Michigan Quarterly Review, Fairy Tale Review, Spunk, Foglifter, Gigantic Sequins, Home is Where you Queer Your Heart (Foglifter Press, 2021) and on stages and pirate ships and cemeteries and queer bars near you. They are most definitely haunted.