Occupation short story writer Name Casey Plett Role Writer | Period 2010-present Books A Safe Girl to Love | |
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Notable works A Safe Girl to Love | ||
Casey Plett - Word on the Street
Casey Plett is a Canadian writer. She has won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction at the 27th Lambda Literary Awards in 2015 for her debut short story collection A Safe Girl to Love, and an Honour of Distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in Canada.
Plett previously wrote a regular column about her gender transition for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She is a book reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press and has published work in Rookie, Plenitude, The Walrus, and Two Serious Ladies. She is the co-editor with Cat Fitzpatrick of an upcoming anthology of speculative fiction from trans authors from Topside Press. She has cited Imogen Binnie, Elena Rose, and Julia Serano as some of her influences.
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she currently lives in Windsor, Ontario.