Casey Plett And Hazel Jane Plante: A SAFE GIRL TO LOVE And ANY OTHER CITY

Bird in Hand welcomes Casey Plett and Hazel Jane Plante to Baltimore for a joint celebration of their two new books: Plett’s A SAFE GIRL TO LOVE , and Plante’s ANY OTHER CITY!

A Safe Girl to Love , winner of the Lambda Literary Award for transgender fiction, was first published in 2014. Now back in print after a long absence, this new edition includes an afterword by the author that reflects on trans writing and representation in our current political climate.

Any Other City is a novel about friendship and other forms of love, travelling in a body across decades, and transmuting trauma through art making and queer sex — a love letter to trans femmes and to art itself.

Casey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish and A Safe Girl to Love; the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers ; and the publisher at LittlePuss Press. She has written for the New York Times , Harper’s Bazaar , the Guardian , the Globe and Mail , McSweeney’s Internet Tendency , and the Winnipeg Free Press , among other publications. Winner of the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Lambda Literary Award twice, she has also been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. She splits her time between New York City and Windsor, Ontario. caseyplett.com

Hazel Jane Plante is a librarian, musician, cat photographer, coastal creature and writer. Her debut novel, Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) (Metonymy Press, 2019), received a Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for both a Publishing Triangle Award and a BC and Yukon Book Prize. She lives with her gorgeous cat, Gus, on the unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. hazeljaneplante.com