Casey Plett

Casey Plett
Occupation short story writer
Nationality Canadian
Period 2010-present
Notable works A Safe Girl to Love
Website
caseyplett.wordpress.com

Casey Plett is a Canadian writer. She has won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards in 2015 for her debut short story collection A Safe Girl to Love,[1] and an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers in Canada.[2]

Plett previously wrote a regular column about her gender transition for McSweeney's Internet Tendency.[3] She is a book reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press[3] and has published work in Rookie, Plenitude, The Walrus, and Two Serious Ladies.[4] She is the co-editor with Cat Fitzpatrick of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, an anthology of speculative fiction from trans authors from Topside Press.[5] Meanwhile, Elsewhere received a Stonewall Book Award in 2018.[6] She has cited Imogen Binnie, Elena Rose, and Julia Serano as some of her influences.[4]

Her debut novel, Little Fish, was published in 2018 by Arsenal Pulp Press.[7]

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba,[3] she currently lives in Windsor, Ontario.

References

  1. ↑ "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Alex Leslie wins 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers". Quill & Quire, June 8, 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 "Winnipeg author mines her experiences and those of other trans women in fearless collection of short stories". Winnipeg Free Press, June 19, 2014.
  4. 1 2 Page/Odofemi, Morgan M. "Trans Women's Lit? An Interview with Trish Salah and Casey Plett". Canadian Women in the Literary Arts. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SHORT SPECULATIVE FICTION BY TRANSGENDER WRITERS" Archived June 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.. Topside Press, February 18, 2015.
  6. ↑ "2018 Barbara Gittings Literature Award and Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award of the Stonewall Book Awards Announced". American Library Association News. February 13, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Casey Plett's Little Fish is a powerful and important debut". National Post, April 6, 2018.


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