Recommended Reading: The Monster I Am Today, by Kevin Simmonds
A finalist for the Publishing Triangle’s Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, The Monster I Am Today: Leontyne Price and a Life in Verse by Kevin Simmonds is published by Northwestern University Press. The winner
Recommended Reading: The Prophets, by Robert Jones Jr.
In The Prophets, Robert Jones Jr. tells a story of love between two enslaved young men on a nineteenth-century plantation in the American South; a love so profound and impossible to hide that the other
Recommended Reading: Silver Beach, by Claire Cox
In Claire Cox’s debut novel, Silver Beach, three women—a mother and her two daughters—suffer a loss that changes the course of their lives. The two sisters, Mara and Shannon, were separated and raised differently—Mara, with
Recommended Reading: A Natural History of Transition, by Callum Angus
In A Natural History of Transition, a collection of short fiction by Callum Angus, the journeys of transitioning are seldom one-way, one-time, or linear, but something more fluid and often transcending the realm of possibility.
Recommended Reading: Radiant Fugitives, by Nawaaz Ahmed
Radiant Fugitives is a radiant, rare book, exploring all the contradictions in the life of Seema, an upper-class, liberal political consultant, a lesbian from a conservative Muslim family. She is an Indian American who is
Recommended Reading: Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters
Detransition, Baby is a hilarious, vulnerable, gut-wrenching ride through the messy emotional terrain of trans and queer kin-making. Following the interwoven lives of three women—two trans, one cis—navigating womanhood, sex, pregnancy, and the slow approach
Recommended Reading: The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes, by Zoe Playdon
The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes begins in Scotland in 1912 and ends in London in the 1960s. This sterling work of nonfiction tells the story of a trans child named Ewan Forbes and follows
Recommended Reading: A Dream of a Woman, by Casey Plett
With Little Fish, Casey Plett established herself as a writer willing to and adept at writing trans women characters with a kind of nuance and complexity rarely seen. With A Dream of a Woman, she