You may remember playwright Kelleen Conway Blanchard (who wrote Hearts Are Monsters, which more people should have seen) as the author of "Vi and Me" in this year's queer issue—a short-and-sweet essay about what happened when her husband of seven years became her wife. If you haven't read it, please do. You will enjoy it.

She's got a play opening later this month at Annex called Kittens in a Cage—a riff, I take it, on exploitation films about ladies in prison. I just got ahold of the poster by Ellen Forney:

Forney is also one of this year's candidates for the Stranger Genius Award in the books category.