Casey Plett

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Casey Plett
Born (1987-06-20) June 20, 1987 (age 37) [1]
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
OccupationWriter
Nationality Canadian
Period2010-present
Notable worksA Safe Girl to Love,Little Fish,A Dream of a Woman
Website
caseyplett.wordpress.com

Casey Plett (born June 20, 1987) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novel Little Fish, her Lambda Literary Award winning short story collection, A Safe Girl to Love, and her Giller Prize-nominated short story collection, A Dream of a Woman. Plett is a transgender woman, and she often centers this experience in her writing.

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Personal life

Plett was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in a Mennonite family in Morden, Manitoba. [2] [3] She attended high school in Eugene, Oregon, and later moved to Portland for college and New York for graduate school. [2] She has lived in Windsor, Ontario. [4] Plett currently teaches at Ohio University. [5] [6]

Career

Plett previously wrote a regular column about her gender transition for McSweeney's Internet Tendency . [7] She is a book reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press [7] and has published work in Rookie , Plenitude , The Walrus , and Two Serious Ladies. [8]

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 transgender authors from Topside Press. [9] Meanwhile, Elsewhere received a Stonewall Book Award in 2018. [10] After Topside was disbanded, Plett and Fitzpatrick co-founded LittlePuss Press, done initially to continue the printing of Meanwhile, Elsewhere. Afterwards, they published Faltas, which was the recipient of the 2023 Stonewall Award in the nonfiction category. [11]

She has cited Imogen Binnie, Elena Rose, and Julia Serano as some of her influences. [8]

Her 2014 short story collection A Safe Girl to Love was reprinted by Arsenal Pulp Press with a new afterword from the author in 2023. [12]

Her short story collection, A Dream of a Woman, was longlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize. [13] Plett then served on the Giller Prize jury in 2022. [14]

Awards

WorkAwardsResultRef.
A Safe Girl to Love Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction Won [15]
Dayne Oglivie Prize Nominated [16] [17]
Meanwhile, Elsewhere Stonewall Book Award: Barbara Gittings Literature AwardWon [10]
Little Fish Amazon.ca First Novel Award Won [18]
Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction Won [19]
A Dream of a Woman Giller Prize Longlisted [20] [13]
On Community Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction Nominated [21] [22]

Selected works

Works by Plett include the following:

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. 1 2 "She's an open book | The Drive Magazine". The Drive Magazine. 27 July 2018. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  3. ↑ Plett, Casey (April 20, 2018). "5 Questions With Author Casey Plett". Mennotoba (Interview). Interviewed by Erin Koop Unger. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
  4. ↑ Plett, Casey (May 17, 2018). "Get to Know: Casey Plett". PRISM International (Interview). Interviewed by Jessica Johns. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Casey Plett Ohio University" . Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  6. ↑ Plett, Casey (30 June 2024). "'Protect trans kids!' 'You're sick!' What a new bridge in Windsor taught me about reaching out across our cultural divides". Toronto Star . Retrieved 24 October 2024.
  7. 1 2 "Winnipeg author mines her experiences and those of other trans women in fearless collection of short stories". Winnipeg Free Press , June 19, 2014.
  8. 1 2 Page/Odofemi, Morgan M. "Trans Women's Lit? An Interview with Trish Salah and Casey Plett". Canadian Women in the Literary Arts . Archived from the original on September 13, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  9. ↑ "CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SHORT SPECULATIVE FICTION BY TRANSGENDER WRITERS" [ usurped ]. Topside Press, February 18, 2015.
  10. 1 2 Jarnagin, Briana (February 13, 2018). "2018 Barbara Gittings Literature Award and Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award of the Stonewall Book Awards Announced". American Library Association News. Retrieved June 15, 2018.
  11. ↑ Beeck, Nathalie op de (April 28, 2023). "Independent Spirit: LGBTQ Voices in Publishing". Publishers Weekly . Retrieved March 17, 2024.
  12. ↑ "This Short Story Collection Helped Revolutionize Trans Women's Fiction". Them. 2023-04-04. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  13. 1 2 "Miriam Toews, Omar El Akkad & Katherena Vermette among 12 authors longlisted for $100K Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC Books, September 8, 2021.
  14. ↑ "Casey Plett, Kaie Kellough and Waubgeshig Rice among 5 writers to jury 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize". CBC Books. Retrieved January 24, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Lambda Literary Awards laud best gay, lesbian and transgender books". Los Angeles Times , June 2, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Casey Plett | Writers' Trust of Canada". Casey Plett | Writers' Trust of Canada. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  17. ↑ "Alex Leslie wins 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  18. ↑ "Casey Plett wins $60,000 Amazon first novel prize". Toronto Star , May 22, 2019.
  19. ↑ Dundas, Deborah (2019-06-04). "Canadians win three Lambda awards for LGBTQ writing". Toronto Star . Retrieved 2022-01-16.
  20. ↑ "Casey Plett brings trans love to the forefront". CBC. Retrieved October 16, 2021.
  21. ↑ "Announcing the Finalists for the 36th Annual Lambda Literary Awards". them. 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2024-04-05.
  22. ↑ "Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Lammy Awards". Lambda_Literary_Foundation . 2024-06-12. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
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