John Elizabeth Stintzi

For the last decade, Casey Plett has been a lodestar for many transgender writers. Her portrayal of unapologetically trans characters living unapologetically trans lives has opened a door for authors to slough off the impulse to write for a mostly cisgender audience. Plett’s fiction has, of course, received acclaim beyond her community, in large part because of her talent for rendering people and…

It has been months since my two debuts — a novel, Vanishing Monuments, and a poetry collection, Junebat — came out, but I’ve still not seen either of them in a bookstore. Not in person, at least. In April, I was supposed to see my books in a lot of…