Author of Trans Studies, Crystal Odelle (they / she) is a storyteller of trans / polyamorous / whore practice, writing and revising into the desire for something like a life.

Their stories have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Foglifter, Split Lip Magazine, smoke and mold, Apogee, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. Crystal was a Lambda Literary fellow and Tin House Scholar, nominated for Best of the Net, and anthologized in We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Her writing and performances trouble the divide between fiction and reality toward liberation.

She serves as chapbooks editor at Newfound, a hybrid reader for Abode Press, and academic and administrative coordinator for the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at WashU.