Crystal Odelle (they/she) is a queer trans storyteller, author of Trans Studies (Gold Line Press, forthcoming 2025), and chapbooks editor at Newfound. Their stories have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Split Lip Magazine, Gulf Coast, manywor(l)ds, bedfellows, 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 (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.
