S144. Directions in Trans Publishing

Supreme Court, Marriott Marquis, Meeting Level Four
Saturday, February 11, 2017
10:30 am to 11:45 am

 

Transgender literature has become increasingly prominent in recent years. This panel addresses the publishing side of this cultural moment, which taken the form of both new trans literary publications and a growing visibility of trans literature in cis-centric journals and presses. Five trans editors and publishers discuss their experiences in curating trans literature and the challenges of making spaces for it where few had existed before.


Participants

Moderator:

Kay Gabriel is a coeditor of Vetch: A Journal of Trans Poetry and Poetics and a PhD student in classics at Princeton University. You can find her writing in Nat. Brut, Matrix, TINGE, Plenitude, TSQ, and elsewhere. She collaborated with David W. Pritchard on the poetry chapbook Impropria Persona.

Colette Arrand is a student in the creative writing program at the University of Georgia. She is the poetry editor for Harlot Media, the nonfiction editor of Heavy Feather Review, and an editor at Jellyfish Highway Press.

SA Smythe is a Black genderqueer writer and translator living in London and completing a PhD in history of consciousness. They are the publishing editor for THEM and associate editor for Scarf. SA organizes in queer of colour, feminist, and abolitionist writing collectives between Europe and the US.

Cat Fitzpatrick is the poetry editor at Topside Press, the leading publisher of trans literature, and facilitates the trans poets workshop. She teaches at Rutgers University, Newark. Her book of poems is Glamourpuss. Her website is catfitzpatrick.net.

Stephen Ira writes poetry, short fiction, and critical work, which he has published in various outlets including Them. He is a cofounder and coeditor of Vetch: A Magazine of Trans Poetry and Poetics. A 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry, he has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.

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