Casey
Plett
Casey Plett is an acclaimed author and the publisher at LittlePuss Press. Her books of nonfiction and fiction include On Community, A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, and A Safe Girl to Love. Plett is a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Awards and has won the Amazon First Novel Award and the Firecracker Award for Fiction. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, USA.
Writers & Books
Award History
2019 - Finalist
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
Jury Citation
“Casey Plett’s work goes straight to the bone of what it means to be human in a world that is at once cruel and kind — and not always in equal measure. Her prose shimmers with sharp insight, heartbreaking humour, and above all, total mastery of the craft of writing. With consummate skill, Plett challenges us to see the lives of the trans women, sex workers, and other marginalized people she writes about with greater clarity and depth: a lasting gift that will leave its mark on Canadian and LGBTQ literature.” —2019 Dayne Ogilvie Prize jury (Amber Dawn and Kai Cheng Thom)2015 - Finalist
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers
Jury Citation
“Casey Plett’s debut collection of stories bravely reveals the bleak and the beautiful in the lives of trans people in North America. A Safe Girl to Love dares us to look candidly at ourselves through the eyes of trans characters as they negotiate their place in queer and cisgendered communities.” -- 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers Jury (Nancy Cullen, Brett Josef Grubisic, and Anand Mahadevan)Juror History
Program History
2025 - Selector
Rising Stars
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