Loyalty is so excited to celebrate the launch of Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives with editors Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini & contributors L. Harris and D. Noal Jefferson!! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast. Click here to register for the event with a donation of any amount of your choice or you can order the book from our website to be added to the event's registration list. Donations will go to BLM DC. There will also be an option to snag the book during the event.

A radical, first of its kind anthology exploring the intersection of fat and queer identities

We're here. We're queer. We're fat.

This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identities, showcasing new, emerging and established queer and trans writers from around the world.

Celebrating fat and queer bodies and lives, this book challenges negative and damaging representations of queer and fat bodies and offers readers ways to reclaim their bodies, providing stories of support, inspiration and empowerment.

In writing that is intimate, luminous and emotionally raw, this anthology is a testament to the diversity and power of fat queer voices and experiences, and they deserve to be heard.

An empowering anthology of original essays and writing celebrating fat and queer bodies and lives, showcasing writing from up-and-coming and established writers. This book challenges negative and damaging representations of queer and fat bodies, empowering and providing support to those at this intersection.

Bruce Owens Grimm is a huge ghost nerd. Based in Chicago, his haunted essays and reviews have appeared in The Rumpus, Brevity’s Blog, Essay Daily, Entropy, AWP's Notebook, Iron Horse Literary Review, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, Sweet: A Literary Confection, Older Queer Voices, Ghost City Review, and elsewhere. He is a co-editor of Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, an imprint of Hachette. He has attended workshops at Tin House, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Vermont Studio Center, and received a Lambda Literary Residency Fellowship to attend The Sundress Academy of the Arts Residency. PEN America awarded him a 2020 Writer's Emergency Fund Grant for writers whose income has been impacted due to COVID-19. He can be found on Twitter: @bruceowensgrimm.

Miguel M. Morales grew up in Texas working as a migrant/seasonal farm-worker. He is a Lambda Literary Fellow and an alum of VONA/Voices and of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Miguel’s work that centers on fatness and queerness appears in From Macho to Mariposa: New Gay Latino Fiction, Hibernation and Other Poems by Bear Bards, Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands, and The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce. He is the co-editor of Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando and of Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. Follow Miguel on social media @TrustMiguel.

Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini is a graduate of Manhattanville College’s MFA Program, a 2019 Lambda Literary Emerging Writers Fellow, and one of the co-editors of Fat and Queer: An
Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. Tiff’s writing has appeared in The Gambler, Off the Rocks: The LGBTQ Anthology of Newtown Writers Press, and Songs of My Selfie: An Anthology of Millennial Writing. They live in New York, and can be found on Twitter and Instagram @Ferenteeny.

L. Harris (they/them) is a mad, fat, queer, non-binary Jewish writer and facilitator. L.'s poetry has appeared in Mizna: Prose, Poetry, and Art Exploring Arab America, Beltway Poetry, DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology, and Word Warriors. Their essays have been published in Outside Mental Health: Voices and Visions of Madness, Magical Writing, and We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health; and in the anthologies Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives and the Mad Studies Reader. They live in unceded Manahoac lands, aka Northern Virginia. Their Twitter is @leahida and IG is @rewritethestory.

D. Nolan Jefferson is an academic librarian and writer based in Washington, D.C. His prose appears or is forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review, Orca Literary, Empty Mirror, Hobart Pulp, TriQuarterly, and the anthology Fat and Queer. He is an AWP Intro Journal Project Award winner, a Kimblio Fiction fellow, and enjoys tacos, collecting records, and fellow introverts. He tweets @geekandahalf.

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Fat and Queer Anthology Launch Party