Noel Alumit is a multidisciplinary artist who wrote the novel Letters to Montgomery Clift and Music Heard in Hi-Fi and Other Stories. He won the Stonewall Book Award from the American Library Association and the James Duggins Mid-Career Prize. He was named one of Out Magazine's "Out 100" and was a California State Commissioner on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs. Noel has a BFA in Drama and a Master of Divinity in Buddhist Chaplaincy. He is co-founder of the artist run space OFFUS in downtown Los Angeles.