Episode 98: Torrey Peters

Rachel Zucker talks with novelist Torrey Peters about her novel, Detransition, Baby. They talk about the Iowa Writers Workshop, trans writers writing for a trans audience, how writing for others like yourself raises the bar, Peters’ experience self-publishing her first two novellas, the tools cis readers could gain from reading trans stories with empathy, and the new experience of adapting her novel for television.

Books by Torrey Peters

  • Detransition, Baby (One World, 2021)

  • Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022)

  • The Masker (self-published, 2016; revised edition forthcoming from Penguin Random House, 2022)

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