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Casey Plett

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in Winnipeg, Canada

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Gay and Lesbian, Fiction, Nonfiction

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Casey Plett is the author of On Community, 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, the Publisher at LittlePuss Press, and the winner of the Amazon First Novel Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Ohio University.

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Average rating: 4.02 · 9,955 ratings · 1,675 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Little Fish 3.88 avg rating — 4,294 ratings — published 2018 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Safe Girl to Love: Stories 4.06 avg rating — 2,491 ratings — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dream of a Woman 4.28 avg rating — 1,767 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers by Cat Fitzpatrick (Editor), Casey Plett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), RJ Edwards (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.99 avg rating — 465 ratings — published 2017 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Community (Field Notes, #8) 4.32 avg rating — 429 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard by Tom Léger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Riley MacLeod (Editor), Ryka Aoki (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.99 avg rating — 392 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes by Gwen Benaway (Editor), Lilah Sturges (Contributor), Kylie Ariel Bemis (Contributor) 3.71 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Resilience by Amy Eleanor Heart (Goodreads Author) (editor), Sugi Pyrrophyta (editor), Larissa Glasser (Goodreads Author) (editor) 3.77 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lizzy & Annie 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les étoiles comme des petits poissons by Casey Plett (Goodreads Author), Daniel Grenier (translator), Pascal Raud (translator) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Casey Plett made a comment on Mark Cusack’s review of Little Fish " I'm not a man. Please don't use male pronouns for me. I don't mind you not liking the book (I really don't, thanks for your honest review, I mean that ...more "
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“Who knew, Lizzy thought, the finite amount of nights in her life where she would sleep with her hand around a trusted body. That trusted hers. It wouldn't be a lot, anyway, would it.”
― Casey Plett, A Safe Girl to Love: Stories

tags: comfort, loneliness, pessimism, sadness, trust, unrequited-love

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“Wendy knew how to deal with looking cis and she knew how to deal with looking trans, but she would never, ever figure out how to be both. How the world could treat her so differently—within days or hours.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

tags: cis, perception-of-others, trans, treatment-of-others

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“Maybe living through it isn't the only hard part. Maybe being in the world afterward is also the hard part.”
― Casey Plett, Little Fish

tags: lgbt, mennonites, religion, transition, transitioning

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