Trans Authors Speak UP: Between Your Ears: The Power of BEing Seen
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Lord Baltimore Hotel
Baltimore Theatre – Mezzanine
PARKING
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Writing Trans Lives in Catastrophic Times. This reading brings together trans writers who discuss what it means to live, thrive, and create literature during a period of transphobic crisis in the U.S. Casey Plett, Publisher at LittlePuss Press is the author of On Community, A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, and A Safe Girl to Love. Nic Anstett’s fiction has been featured in publications, One Story, North American Review, and Barrelhouse. She’s currently at work on a collection of short stories and a novel. Addie Tsai (any/all) is the author of Dear Twin, Unwieldy Creatures, and Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture (forthcoming, 2025). Jalynn Harris is a writer, educator, and book designer from Baltimore. They are the founder of SoftSavagePress, an indie publisher promoting the works of Black artists. Their literary work can be found in Poets.org, The Best American Poetry 2022, Poetry Magazine, Gulf Coast & elsewhere.
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Casey Plett is the author of On Community, A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, A Safe Girl to Love, the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers, and the Publisher of LittlePuss Press. She has called many places home but nowhere more so than Winnipeg and Southern Manitoba, Treaty 1 Territory. She is one of those gross people who likes the smell of cigarette smoke and she is an Assistant Professor of English and Film at Ohio University.
www.caseyplett.com
Instagram: @plettsky
Addie Tsai (any/all) is the author of Dear Twin, which was included in the American Library Association’s Rainbow List in 2021, and Unwieldy Creatures, a Shirley Jackson finalist for Best Novel. She collaborated with Dominic Walsh Dance Theater on Victor Frankenstein and Camille Claudel, among others. They are the founding editor-in-chief for just femme & dandy. Addie is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Creative Writing at William & Mary, where she is an Affiliate Faculty in Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies. She is the author of Straight White Men Can’t Dance: American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture forthcoming with Bloomsbury.
www.addietsai.com
Instagram: @addieisunwieldy
Nic Anstett, a writer from Baltimore, MD, loves the bizarre, spectacular, and queer. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon’s MFA program and has attended workshops through the Clarion Foundation, Lambda Literary, and Tin House, where she was a 2021 scholar. Her fiction can be found in publications such as One Story, Witness Magazine, Passages North, and Lightspeed Magazine, and has been nominated for anthologies like the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Nic has also written essays and articles for Autostraddle, brevity, Reactor, and them. She is currently at work on a collection of short stories and a novel.
nicanstett.com
Jalynn Harris is a writer, educator, and book designer from Baltimore. They are the founder of SoftSavagePress, an indie publisher promoting the works of Black artists. Their literary work can be found in Poets.org, The Best American Poetry 2022, Poetry Magazine, Gulf Coast & elsewhere.
www.jalynnharris.com
Instagram: @Jalynn_poet
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CityLit Project in partnership with Lord Baltimore Hotel and Red Emma’s present CityLit Festival: Our Stories Give Light To Our Future. This celebration of the arts showcases a bevy of leading poets and writers on April 5, 2025. We’re talking fiction, nonfiction, poetry galore, and ways to up the ante on your craft.
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