Casey Plett

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Casey Plett
Born (1987-06-20) June 20, 1987 (age 34)[1]
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
OccupationWriter
NationalityCanadian
Period2010-present
Notable worksA Safe Girl to Love, Little Fish
PartnerSybil Lamb[2]
Website
caseyplett.wordpress.com

Casey Plett (born June 20, 1987) is a Canadian writer.

Life[]

Plett was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in a Mennonite family in Morden, Manitoba.[3][4] She attended high school in Eugene, Oregon and later moved to Portland for College and New York for graduate school.[3] She currently lives in Windsor, Ontario.[2]

Plett previously wrote a regular column about her gender transition for McSweeney's Internet Tendency.[5] She is a book reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press[5] and has published work in Rookie, Plenitude, The Walrus, and Two Serious Ladies.[6]

In addition to her work as an author she is the co-editor with Cat Fitzpatrick of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, an anthology of speculative fiction from trans authors from Topside Press.[7] Meanwhile, Elsewhere received a Stonewall Book Award in 2018.[8] She has cited Imogen Binnie, Elena Rose, and Julia Serano as some of her influences.[6]

Work[]

Work Awards & Honours
A Safe Girl to Love. Topside Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1627290050. Lambda Literary Award,[9] Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Oglive Prize[10]
Co-editor, Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. Topside Press. 2017. ISBN 978-1627290180. Stonewall Book Award[8]
Little Fish. Arsenal Pulp Press. 2018. ISBN 978-1551527208. Amazon.ca First Novel Award,[11] and the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards.[12]


References[]

  1. ^ Plett, Casey [@caseyplett] (June 15, 2014). "Btw Winnipeg I am gonna be giving a hometown reading at @mcnallyrobinson on June 20, my 27th birthday, coincidentally" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Plett, Casey (May 17, 2018). "Get to Know: Casey Plett". PRISM International (Interview). Interviewed by Jessica Johns. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "She's an open book | The Drive Magazine". The Drive Magazine. 27 July 2018. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  4. ^ Plett, Casey (April 20, 2018). "5 Questions With Author Casey Plett". Mennotoba (Interview). Interviewed by Erin Koop Unger. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b "Winnipeg author mines her experiences and those of other trans women in fearless collection of short stories". Winnipeg Free Press, June 19, 2014.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Page/Odofemi, Morgan M. "Trans Women's Lit? An Interview with Trish Salah and Casey Plett". Canadian Women in the Literary Arts. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  7. ^ "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SHORT SPECULATIVE FICTION BY TRANSGENDER WRITERS" Archived June 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Topside Press, February 18, 2015.
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b "2018 Barbara Gittings Literature Award and Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award of the Stonewall Book Awards Announced". American Library Association News. February 13, 2018. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  9. ^ "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2015.
  10. ^ "Casey Plett's Little Fish is a powerful and important debut". National Post, April 6, 2018.
  11. ^ "Casey Plett wins $60,000 Amazon first novel prize". Toronto Star, May 22, 2019.
  12. ^ "Canadians win three Lambda awards for LGBTQ writing". Toronto Star, June 4, 2019.

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