T.L. Cowan holds a PhD from the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta and currently teaches trans feminist and queer performance, literary and cultural studies at Eugene Lang College and in the School of Media Studies at The New School. T.L. has published widely in academic, arts, and grass-roots print and online journals and anthologies, including Topia, Canadian Theatre Review, Matrix Magazine, Canadian Poetry, and No More Potlucks. She is the author of GLITTERfesto and the creator of several alter-egos that have performance lives of their own, including her most famous alter-ego, Tammy Pamalovovich, Aging Supermodel Lesbian Feminist Experimental Poet Revolutionary.