Ela Przybyło is Associate Professor in English and core faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Illinois State University. She writes on asexuality in Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality (Ohio State University Press, 2019), as well as in many peer-reviewed journals such as Feminist Formations, GLQ, Sexualities, and Journal of Lesbian Studies. Ela is also a founding and managing editor of the peer-reviewed, open access journal Feral Feminisms. Ela finds joy in vegan food, walks with her kitty Maciuś, and swimming in cold lakes.