​Liam Rene Whitworth is a poet, experimental filmmaker, and curator from Oregon. He has performed at The Moth, the Segerstrom Center for the Performing Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art alongside Marina Abramovic. ​Whitworth served as the inaugural Artist in Residence at Portland Parks and Recreation, Poet in Residence for Oregon State University's Trillium Project, and 2020 Queer Hero for the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest. He is a 2025 New Media Fellow at ​​Portland Art Museum’s Center for an Untold Tomorrow, a 2025 Pride Foundation Scholar, and a 2026 Trans Journalists Association Fellow. Whitworth founded Future Prairie, a non-profit mobile art museum and LGBTQ2SIA+ & ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American) artist collective. He was a 2021 Fellow at Lambda Literary and a 2018, 2021, and 2025 Fellow at Tin House. He is currently working on slipstream climate fiction. Liam writes about care, class, nature, future, family, queer health, neurodivergent spirituality, emerging technologies, and consciousness. His writing has appeared in Pitchfork, Lambda Literary, Tin House, Oregon Humanities, Proximity Magazine, Seventeen Magazine, Eclectica, Pivot, SWWIM, Smeuse, Superstition Review, xoJane, Inverted Syntax, Unearthed Literary Journal, Sinister Wisdom, Dime Show Review, the Oregonian, The Write Launch, and elsewhere.