Stag Dance author Torrey Peters on trans shame, horny lumberjacks, and literary freedom (EXCLUSIVE)

Torrey Peters (Image: Hunter Abrams)

Torrey Peters is arguably the world’s most famous trans novelist of our time. After publishing the award-winning Detransition, Baby in 2021, now she returns with a curious collection of novellas entitled Stag Dance, a series of four narratives that capture the breadth of the trans experience – in a dystopian future, a teen high-school dormitory, the deep forests of Old Vermont, and on the Las Vegas strip.

Here, Attitude speaks to Peters about the struggles of trans writing, the pleasure of genre-bending, and living in America at a time of oppression. We also share our picks of our best recent reads, as well as our current favourite audiobook available on Audible.

What was it like to be catapulted into the mainstream and onto prize lists with

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