Nino Cipri
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Nino Cipri is a queer, nonbinary author. Their story collection Homesick won the Dzanc Short Story Collection Contest.[1]
Quotes
"[E]verything I write is queer, and pretty much always has been. I was lucky enough to find queer books when I was a young teen in the late nineties–authors like Poppy Z. Brite and comics like HotHead Paisan, Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, plus tons of zines and poetry collections — that reassured me I wasn’t the only gender-confused weirdo who got crushes on multiple genders and the occasional monster. I'm lucky that I encountered queer lit when I did; it was a place where I could see myself reflected back, or that articulated questions that I was fumbling through. It's important to me to keep writing in that space, with characters that reflect the community I know."[2]
"After a lot of thought (years of it! wow!), I realized that I was transgender and wanted to transition. But transition to what? Nonbinary is a nice word for folks like myself that fall outside or shift between male and female identities and appearances. 'Nonbinary' complements exploration and experimentation, and has a dash of defiance. I can be a little of column A, a little of column B, and sometimes I can just wander off the page entirely."[3]
Works
- Homesick (2019)
- Finna (2020)
References
- ↑ Rob Wolf (28 February 2020). "Ghost Stories and Love Stories: Fear and Longing in Homesick". Literary Hub. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ↑ Sides, Bradley (9 October 2019). "Nino Cipri on Homesick(ness)". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
- ↑ "FAQs". Nino Cipri. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
