Author Talk: Casey Plett
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The English Department is thrilled to host a talk with author Casey Plett on Monday, March 11, 2024, at 6 pm. Join us for her presentation of "The Peer and the Stranger" at Flying Books (784 College Street).
TITLE: The Peer and the Stranger
DESCRIPTION: The notion of "audience" is fraught, complicated, and easily problematic. But if you're a writer and want your work to be read, you have one. If you're a reader and you pick up a book, you're part of one. So what does it mean? This lecture will examine this question of audience as both writers and readers, organized around the concept of the peer and the stranger.
BIO: Casey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman (2021), which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; Little Fish (2018), winner of a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award in Canada; and A Safe Girl to Love (2014), also a winner of a Lambda Literary Award. She was the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers (2017) alongside Cat Fitzpatrick. Plett has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the Winnipeg Free Press, and other publications. She is the publisher at LittlePuss Press. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and splits her time between New York City and Windsor, Ontario.
RSVP here! Email all questions to creative.writing@utoronto.ca
