Casey Plett is the author of A DREAM OF A WOMAN (Arsenal Pulp, 2021), which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; LITTLE FISH (Arsenal Pulp, 2018), winner of a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award in Canada; and A SAFE GIRL TO LOVE (Topside Press, 2014; Arsenal Pulp, 2023), also a winner of a Lambda Literary Award. She was the co-editor of MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE: SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FROM TRANSGENDER WRITERS (2017) alongside Cat Fitzpatrick. Most recently, Plett authored the essay collection ON COMMUNITY (Biblioasis, 2023), which draws on a range of firsthand experiences to start a conversation about the larger implications of community as a word, an idea, and a symbol.
Cat Fitzpatrick wrote the book of poems GLAMOURPUSS and co-edited the anthology MEANWHILE, ELSEWHERE: SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FROM TRANSGENDER WRITERS, which won the ALA Stonewall Book Award for Literature. Her verse novel, THE CALL-OUT, was published in 2022 by Seven Stories Press. She is the Director of the Women’s Studies program at Rutgers University – Newark and the Editrix at LittlePuss Press.