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 and academic and administrative coordinator for the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at WashU.