Mitch Kellaway Archives

December 21, 2015 4 min read

The Women of San Quentin is a genre-bending, multifaceted, and uncompromising examination of the true stories of life behind bars for transgender women Read More

H. Melt: On Cultivating a Community, Chicago Art, and the Future of Trans Poetry

Mitch Kellaway

Interviews

November 22, 2015 8 min read

"I feel there’s not a whole lot of support for trans writers--but it’s changing. And it’s changing not because [of the publishers], but because a lot more trans poets are pushing for this to happen..." Read More

‘Impersonation’ by Joy Ladin

Mitch Kellaway

Poetry Reviews

October 22, 2015 3 min read

The angst and transcendence of that unique point in a transitioning person’s life—the last days that they exist in their...

‘A Boy Like Me’ by Jennie Wood

Mitch Kellaway

Reviews Young Adult

January 6, 2015 4 min read

Peyton Honeycutt’s world, circumscribed to his small North Carolina town, is too limited to encompass the fact that he’s a...

‘Blue,Too: More Writing By (For or About) Working-Class Queers’ Edited by Wendell Ricketts

Mitch Kellaway

Anthology Reviews

November 18, 2014 4 min read

"Blue, Too interrogates an aspect of queer communities that is often the source of invisibility and discomfort..." Read More

‘Make Love to Rage’ by Morgan Robyn Collado

Mitch Kellaway

Features Poetry

October 21, 2014 2 min read

Rage / Making / Love. Trans, working-class, femme Columbian-Puerto Rican poet Morgan Robyn Collado splits her debut collection, Make Love...

‘Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man’ by Thomas Page McBee

Mitch Kellaway

Bio/Memoir Reviews

September 15, 2014 4 min read

Thomas Page McBee’s Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man is not a memoir—though, in...

‘He Mele A Hilo: A Hilo Song’ by Ryka Aoki

Mitch Kellaway

Fiction Reviews

August 12, 2014 3 min read

"Each [character] is touched by enough quirky characteristics and backstory to keep them unique-- no easy task, but Aoki pulls it off by drawing on the sounds, smells, and rhythms associated with each individual and the different spaces their hearts compel them to inhabit." Read More

‘Gephyromania’ by TC Tolbert

Mitch Kellaway

Poetry Reviews

July 29, 2014 4 min read

"Taken as a whole, the pulse behind Gephyromania is that of a seeker who finds meaning not in what is found, but in the act itself." Read More

‘A Safe Girl to Love’ by Casey Plett

Mitch Kellaway

Fiction Reviews

July 20, 2014 4 min read

"Stumbling towards love--from others, from the self--is a messy affair for the twenty-something not-children yet not-quite-adults of Plett's worlds." Read More

Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Toss and Whirl and Pass’ by Shawn Stewart Ruff

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

In Bed with Joan Nestle

‘The Women of San Quentin: Soul Murder of Transgender Women in Male Prisons’ by Kristin Lyseggen

H. Melt: On Cultivating a Community, Chicago Art, and the Future of Trans Poetry

‘Impersonation’ by Joy Ladin

‘A Boy Like Me’ by Jennie Wood

‘Blue,Too: More Writing By (For or About) Working-Class Queers’ Edited by Wendell Ricketts

‘Make Love to Rage’ by Morgan Robyn Collado

‘Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man’ by Thomas Page McBee

‘He Mele A Hilo: A Hilo Song’ by Ryka Aoki

‘Gephyromania’ by TC Tolbert

‘A Safe Girl to Love’ by Casey Plett

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

An Artist’s Journey from the U.S.-Mexico Border: An Interview with Ashley Robin Franklin

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy