Casey Plett

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.

Casey Plett
Born	(1987-06-20) June 20, 1987 (age 38)[1] Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Occupation	Writer
Nationality	Canadian
Period	2010–present
Notable works	A Safe Girl to Love, Little Fish, A Dream of a Woman
Website
caseyplett.wordpress.com

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

Work	Awards	Result	Ref.
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 Award	Won	[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:

• Plett, Casey (2014). A Safe Girl to Love. Topside Press. ISBN 978-1627290050.
• Plett, Casey Plett; Fitzpatrick, Cat, eds. (2017). Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. Topside Press. ISBN 978-1627290180.
• Plett, Casey (2018). Little Fish. Arsenal Pulp Press. ISBN 978-1551527208.
• Plett, Casey (2021). A Dream of a Woman. Arsenal Pulp Press. ISBN 978-1551528564.
• Plett, Casey (2023). On Community. Biblioasis. ISBN 978-1771965774.