Catherine Fitzpatrick co-ordinates the Trans Poets Workshop and is an editor at Topside Press, where her next project is editing the first ever anthology of speculative fiction by transgenderwriters. You can read her poems in venues including Adrienne, Asylum and The Advocate, or on her website, catfitzpatrick.net.
On the one hand, Advice from the Lights is deft, bubbly, poised, polished, consistently witty, affecting an air of light verse. On the other, it is a document of barely constrained, messy emotion. Read More
The book develops and deploys a sophisticated analysis of structural oppression, through the related categories of racism, exploitation, colonialism and transphobia, and of the ways this plays out as personal experience Read More