TREY BURNETTE

Trey Burnette is a Palm Springs-based writer and photographer. A third excerpt from his unpublished memoir was out in September, 2025, in Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror, published by the Feminist Press. His work has appeared in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NBC News/NBC THINK, Los Angeles Review of Books, Kelp Journal and Books, Coachella Review, Hellbender Magazine, Tulsa Review, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, DAP Health, and The Sun magazine. 

His work often focuses on the LGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities and involves themes of mental and physical health, class, grief, and sexuality. 

His writing has been featured in best of  collections for  the Los Angeles Times. Literary Hub, and Kelp Journal.

The Los Angeles Center of Photography awarded him an Honorable Mention for their 

Thresholds 2024: Photography and Urban Architecture exhibit.

Trey has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts from the University of California at Riverside and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Southern California. He studied comedy writing with The Groundlings and The Second City in Los Angeles, and copyediting at the University of California at San Diego.