Sydney Hegele (they/them) is a queer Anglo-Catholic writer from the Greenbelt in Southern Ontario. They are the author of Bird Suit and The Pump, which was the winner of the ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Their essays have appeared in Catapult, Electric Literature, EVENT, The Poetry Foundation and Psychology Today. Their essay collection Bad Kids is forthcoming with Invisible Publishing in Fall 2025. Sydney’s work often explores small-town queerness, environmental justice, mental illness, religious life and the complicated relationships between these things. They live with their husband and French Bulldog on Treaty 13 Land (Toronto).