The night I saw KB Brookins read an excerpt from their debut memoir Pretty at a small brewery in Kansas City, I knew I had to get my hands on the book. A hybrid memoir of transmasculinity, Blackness, belonging and unbelonging in Texas, reckoning with sexual violence and adoptee identity, cultural criticism, and joy, Pretty is an essential addition to the contemporary trans memoir canon.
Read MoreJosh Denslow isn’t just a writer. He’s a musician, a screenwriter, and a father. A lot of us hold multiple roles in our lives, of course, and the characters in Denslow’s novel, Super Normal, do too.
Read MoreSuzan Palumbo’s Skin Thief is a collection that is both luscious and terrifying, full of shapeshifting women, Trinidadian ghosts, and gothic horror. Skin becomes a startling and often gruesome metaphor for identity as queer women transform into deer, snakes, and douens. They are made monstrous, but they glory in that monstrosity.
Read MoreI Done Clicked My Heels Three Times (Soft Skull Press, 2023) by Dr. Taylor Byas is the debut full-length poetry collection inspired and shaped by the 1978 classic The Wiz.
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