Maxwell Van Cooper is an emerging writer and Library Trainee at the Free Library of Philadelphia. They are working to receive a Master of Science in Library Science (MSLS) with a concentration in Archival Studies. Max is also the co-founder of an online publication, tk.collective. Their writing focuses on queer culture, literature and art criticism, and auto theory. Max has been a horror movie lover and aficionado since they were thirteen and watched It (1990).