Kyle Casey Chu (AKA Panda Dulce) is a writer, filmmaker, and one of the founding queens of Drag Story Hour. She was born and raised in San Francisco, where she still proudly lives, within nagging distance of her families (both drag and biological). Her debut novel, The Queen Bees of Tybee County, was named a 2026 Asian Pacific American Award for Literature Honor book. Juana Fanta Needs a Hero is her second novel.