A Conversation with Amazon First Novel Award Winner Casey Plett (Part One)

In this podcast, you'll hear a live and lively recording of a special event in Windsor. Today, you’ll hear Part One of a recent interview with award-winning fiction author Casey Plett, recorded at Biblioasis bookstore. Windsor poet Vanessa Shields is the interviewer.Casey Plett is the author of the short story collection A Safe Girl to Love  and the novel Little Fish, which won this year's Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the Lamda Literary Award. It was also short-listed for the 2019 Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers.Casey's also co-editor of the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers. She wrote a column on transitioning for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Maclean’s, The Walrus, Plenitude, and the Winnipeg Free Press. She is the winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction, a finalist for this year’s Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and a was a past finalist for the 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. She lives in Windsor, Ontario.Check out Little Fish on the publisher's website: arsenalpulp.com/Books/L/Little-Fish