Wong - who has edited multiple anthologies, described working on this anthology after hospitalization as a 'critical lifeline' similar to the breaths from her ventilator and liquid nutrition from her feeding tube.
Wong focuses on first-person essays and poems in the anthology, reflecting on various aspects of intimacy including friendships, relationships, and the importance of feeling truly seen.
Wong dedicates the anthology to herself with a message of self-love and deserving everything one desires, emphasizing the importance of personal intimacy stories in expanding collective understanding.
Wong emphasizes the necessity of disabled persons' stories of 'love, care, and desire' to combat oversimplified narratives and redefine the true meaning of intimacy, highlighting the importance of these narratives.
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