Authors & Headliners

Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performer, therapist, lasagna lover and wicked witch who divides her heart between Toronto and Montreal. Her writing has been published widely in print and online, with pieces in Buzzfeed, Asian American Literary Review, Canadian Art, GUTS, Plenitude Magazine, and more. The winner of the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBT Writers, she is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl’s Confabulous Memoir (Metonymy Press), a place called No Homeland (Arsenal Pulp Press), and the children’s book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea (Arsenal Pulp Press).