Career
Caspers is known as an author of fiction. Voyages Out 2, a short story collection she published jointly with Julie Blackwomon, was released in 1990. [8] [9] It was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction the following year. [10]
In 2001, Caspers published The Blessed, an adventure novel set in Minnesota. [1] [8] [11] Then, in 2006, she released her debut solo short story collection, Heavier Than Air, which tells the stories of various lesbian couples in a divided America. [1] [8] [12] The book's manuscript had won the previous year's Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction. [8] [13]
The National Endowment for the Arts issued her a grant in 2008 for prose writing. [1] [8] The following year, she published Little Book of Days, a compilation of vignettes and prose poems. [8] [14]
Her next novel, The Fifth Woman, was published in 2018. [5] [8] It tells the story of a woman in her mid-20s dealing with a sudden loss. [5] [15] The Fifth Woman was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. [8] [16]
Caspers has also published stories in several literary magazines, including the Kenyon Review , Iowa Review , and New American Writing , as well as various anthologies. [1] [8] Her work has been described as part of a wave of queer fabulism in contemporary women's writing. [17]
In 2013, she and Joell Hallowell edited Lawfully Wedded Wives: Rethinking Marriage in the 21st Century, which collected the stories of 20 lesbian couples as same-sex marriage became legalized in California. [8] [18]
Caspers has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University since 2002. [1] [8]
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