Author of Trans Studies (Gold Line Press, 2025) 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 Permanent Record: Poetics Toward the Archive (Nightboat Books) and We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction (Neon Hemlock Press).

She writes RPGs at Feverdream Games and serves as academic and administrative coordinator for the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.