Aay Preston-Myint is a visual artist and art educator based in Oakland, California. Preston-Myint was born in New York City, worked extensively in Chicago, Illinois, and is a co-founder of the Chicago Art Book Fair. The Chicago Art Book Fair has been held annually since 2017 and emerged from the No Coast publishing imprint. Preston-Myint was a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently a program manager at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California. He founded Chances Dances, a party that “supports and showcases the work of queer artists in Chicago.”