Avery Cassell is a genderqueer San Francisco writer, poet, cartoonist, and artist who grew up in Iran. Behrouz Gets Lucky is their first novel, but you can find their erotic short stories sprinkled in various anthologies, including Best Lesbian Erotica 2015 and Sex Still Spoken Here. Avery is currently working on more of Behrouz and Lucky's shenanigans, a memoir, and an illustrated early reader children's book about a eight year old transgender boy and his family.