Dito van Reigersberg was a co-founder of the renowned Pig Iron Theatre Company. He was a Pew Fellow, a USA Knight Fellow, and an OBIE Award winner for Hell Meets Henry Halfway. Most recently, he conceived and co-produced a play based on the songs of Aimee Mann, Poor Judge, which won the Barrymore Award for Outstanding Production of a Musical in 2025. He performed as the drag persona of Martha Graham Cracker all over the world. His original musical, Lashed But Not Leashed, is available on Spotify and other music platforms. These poems are excerpted from a chapbook, Thrown in an Arc, collected by his husband, Matthew Neenan, along with poets Nathalie Anderson and Anisa George. He died on June 1, 2026.