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Mother, Maiden, Crone

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by Gwen Benaway


  gwynception / they them / trans femme / schizo / white / settler in nogojiwanong ptbo / drinker of copious liquids / smoker of various flowers herbs / writer bard / currently publishing serial with river magazine / recently recorded album with local queercore project gashes / leo sun pisces moon capricorn ascendant

  Audrey Vest is a writer who lives with her family in Florida. She is involved with local LGBT groups and enjoys reading fiction and learning about history and art. This is her first time being published; to see what she does next and find links to more of her writing you can follow her on twitter @Audrey_Vest.

  Gwen Benaway is a trans girl of Anishinaabe and Métis descent. She has published two collections of poetry, Ceremonies for the Dead and Passage, and her third collection, Holy Wild, is forthcoming from Book+hug in 2018.

  Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performer, and social worker based in Toronto and Montreal, unceded Indigenous territories. She is also a lasagna lover and wicked witch. She has contributed to such publications as Buzzfeed, Autostraddle, Matrix Magazine, and Asian American Literary Review. She is the author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir (Metonymy Press), a place called No Homeland (Arsenal Pulp Press), and the children’s book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (Arsenal Pulp Press).

  Casey Plett is the author of the novel Little Fish, the short story collection A Safe Girl to Love and co-editor of the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. She wrote a column on transitioning for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Maclean’s, The Walrus, Plenitude, The Winnipeg Free Press, and other publications. She is the winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction and received an Honour of Distinction from The Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.

  Crystal Frasier is known for her frequent text contributions to the Pathfinder, Starfinder, Mutants & Masterminds, and Modern AGE roleplaying games, as well as her work writing the Pathfinder: Spiral of Bones comic series, co-writing State of Decay 2, and illustrating the Secrets of Cats roleplaying game. Excitable and easily confused, she lives in the Pacific Northwest under the watchful auspices of her corgi, Calamity. Her most recent game design work can be found in the upcoming World of Lazarus campaign setting for the Modern AGE roleplaying game.

  Lilah Sturges is the Eisner and Ignatz Award-nominated writer of comics such as Jack of Fables, House of Mystery, Public Relations, and Lumberjanes: The Infernal Compass, as well as two fantasy novels. She lives in Austin, Texas.

  Kylie Ariel Bemis is a trans woman and two-spirit working at the intersection of statistics and computer science; she is an enrolled member of the Zuni tribe.

  Alexa Fae McDaniel is a history student, amateur theater director, and RPG enthusiast from Fredericton, New Brunswick. She likes her coffee like she likes her men—far away from whatever lesbian bar she’s sitting at.

 

 

 


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