Slats Toole (they/them) is a writer, musician, preacher and theater professional currently based in the Twin Cities. They serve as co-moderator of the board of the Covenant Network of Presbyterians. Slats’ Lenten poetry series has been compiled in the collection Queering Lent, and their work has also been published in places like Call to Worship, The Presbyterian Outlook and Sacramental Life. Slats has led workshops on expansive language and queer theology (with a particular emphasis on gender identity) throughout the United States and Canada, Slats makes their home in Minneapolis with their partner Mads.