Ian McLaughlin (he/they) is an incoming PhD student in the University of North Carolina at Greensboro's English department interested in contemporary children's and young adult speculative literature; librarianship as it pertains to neurodivergence, accessibility, and censorship; and philosophy, particularly Speculative Realism. He holds an MA in English and an MLIS from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and is a member of the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience.