Casey Plett

Casey Plett (born June 20, 1987) is a Canadian writer, best known for her novel Little Fish, her Lambda Literary Award winning short story collection, A Safe Girl to Love, and her Giller Prize-nominated short story collection, A Dream of a Woman. Plett is a transgender woman, and she often centers this experience in her writing.

Personal life
Plett was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in a Mennonite family in Morden, Manitoba. She attended high school in Eugene, Oregon, and later moved to Portland for college and New York for graduate school. She currently lives in Windsor, Ontario.

Career
Plett previously wrote a regular column about her gender transition for McSweeney's Internet Tendency. She is a book reviewer for the Winnipeg Free Press and has published work in Rookie, Plenitude, The Walrus, and Two Serious Ladies.

In addition to her work as an author she is the co-editor with Cat Fitzpatrick of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers, an anthology of speculative fiction from transgender authors from Topside Press. Meanwhile, Elsewhere received a Stonewall Book Award in 2018. After Topside was disbanded, Plett and Fitzpatrick co-founded LittlePuss Press, done initially to continue the printing of Meanwhile, Elsewhere. Afterwards, they published Faltas, which was the recipient of the 2023 Stonewall Award in the nonfiction category.

She has cited Imogen Binnie, Elena Rose, and Julia Serano as some of her influences.

Her 2014 short story collection A Safe Girl to Love was reprinted by Arsenal Pulp Press with a new afterword from the author in 2023.

Her short story collection, A Dream of a Woman, was longlisted for the 2021 Giller Prize. Plett then served on the Giller Prize jury in 2022.

Selected works
Works by Plett include the following: