Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir Metonymy Press), the poetry collection a place called No Homeland (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2018), and the children's picture book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li. Her latest book is the essay collection I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes at the End of the World (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2020). Kai Cheng won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.

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• Short-listed, Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction
• Winner, The Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers

Named one of the best books by trans authors in O: The Oprah Magazine

Selected for Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club

"Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars uses its warmhearted critique of the conventional tropes of the trans memoir as a way to reinvent those very tropes in fabulist Technicolor." --Jacob Wren, Montreal Review of Books

"Thom has written a breakout first novel of a young Asian trans femme writer dreaming her own getting free, building complicated family through all her changes, and I am so grateful." --Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Bitch Media