PORTRAITS OF LIFE IN A GENDERED BODY – MEMOIR

NICO LANG (they/them) is a nonbinary award-winning journalist with more than a decade of experience covering the transgender community’s fight for equality. Their work has appeared in major publications, including Rolling Stone, Esquire, The New York Times, Vox, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, Harper’s Bazaar, Time, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Lang is the creator of Queer News Daily and previously served as the deputy editor for Out magazine, the news editor for Them, the LGBTQ+ correspondent for VICE, and the editor and co-founder of the literary journal In Our Words. Their industry-leading contributions to queer media have resulted in a GLAAD Media Award and 10 awards from the National Association of LGBTQ Journalists (NLGJA). Lang is also the first-ever recipient of the Visibility Award from the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund (TLDEF), an honor created to recognize their impactful contributions to reporting on the lives of LGBTQ+ people.

ZOË BOSSIERE (they/she) is a writer, editor, and teacher from Tucson, Arizona. She is the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and co-editor of the anthologies The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Nonfiction (Rose Metal Press) and The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins (Wayne State University Press). Bossiere currently lives in Oregon with her partner and child. Learn more about her and her work at ZoeBossiere.com.