Four years after Detransition, Baby, Peters is back with Stag Dance, which seeks to break down the “binary between cis people ...

That’s just one instance of many in which trans women are betrayed in Stag Dance. To be a trans woman in Peters’ stories is ...

The prize-winning novelist on the cruelty faced by trans people – and how opponents have used stories of detransitioning to ...

The writer on her self-publishing beginnings, ‘felicitous’ versus ‘infelicitous’ transitioning, and writing characters ...

The author talks about the freedom of her new story collection and the realities of trans representation — as well as the ...

The Women’s Prize-nominated author Torrey Peters speaks to Hannah Ewens about horny lumberjacks, creating work for a dark ...

Each word is unusual and intentional, having been unearthed during Peters’s research into real-life 19th-century winter logging camps. It is paradoxically owing to this alien language ...

Torrey Peters’s collection captures characters with conflicting wants and needs who vacillate between euphoria and shame.

The Stag Dance author on exploring transness as a feeling through logger slang. “I was like, I just want to write these weird words.” ...

Andrea Long Chu and Torrey Peters at The Strand. Photo: Benny Harps/Strand Bookstore It’s been four years since Torrey Peters published her critically acclaimed debut, Detransition, Baby.