Casey Plett

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

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WorkAwards 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]
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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.

References

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