As someone who has written throughout their adult life, · R L · has accumulated their professional experience across in variety of contexts and unusual conditions, and in many different parts of the world. Much of that writing has concentrated in and around the Arts—but turning his primary focus to creative work, full time, is a relatively recent development. And while critical and persuasive modes of writing come easily to them—their first love has always been poetry. This is what led them to  pursue their MFA in Literature and Writing at the Bennington Writing Seminars, which is where many of their recent poetry publications began—with more forthcoming.

As a neurodivergent, queer, disabled creative, there are obstacles · R L · has faced throughout his life that have necessitated difficult choices on an ongoing basis. A significant number of concessions relate to how and where he can live his life. Coming to terms with chronic illness has meant accepting that certain barriers and restrictions are matters of fact, and that while disability means that a body and mind are never going to “get better”—there are also ways that those handicaps can be tapped into, and used an agent for change. This is what's led · R L · toward advocacy, and the ongoing fight for better, and more visible representation of the disabled and disability in the Arts. Because, while it's true that incremental gains in general awareness surrounding neurodivergence and non-visible illness have improved in recent years, · R L · still sees how a profound range of the marginalized experience is willfully absented from most cultural discourse. Representation is often disguised under the pretext of acknowledging disability as a site of trauma, along with a desire and need for acceptance. Certainly, the latter are significant parts of being (dis)abled in an thoroughly abled world—but there's more to life than being defined by one's limitations.

This conviction is has led · R L · to found the poetry journal APROSEXIA LIT. He sees it as one way to answer the need for a barrier free online publication, where high quality work that originates outside the norm can find a home, and also be part of a larger conversation within the creative community.