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

Their stories have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Split Lip Magazine, Apogee, manywor(l)ds, 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.

She writes RPGs at Feverdream Games and serves as academic and administrative coordinator for the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at WashU.