Maisnam Arnapal is a researcher in Feminist and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and 2026 Sarah Pettit Fellow at Yale University. He is affiliated with the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Orfalea Center for Global Studies, Center for Feminist Futures, and Center for Taiwan Studies. Maisnam was part of the first Rainbow Lit Fest 2019 and again in 2024. He was also a co-editor of Consciously Speaking (2021), an initiative of Rainbow Lit Fest – Queer & Inclusive and AvianWe.