Editing Sassafras Lowrey

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'''Sassafras Lowrey''' is an author and journalist, known for hir books about dogs.<ref name="Metraux">{{Cite web |title=How Sassafras Lowrey Made Writing About Dogs a Career |last=Métraux |first=Julia |work=Narratively |date=6 March 2020 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= https://narratively.com/how-sassafras-lowrey-made-writing-about-dogs-a-career/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230501174633/https://narratively.com/how-sassafras-lowrey-made-writing-about-dogs-a-career/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Ze came out as [[genderqueer]] at 17, in the early 2000s.<ref name="Lowrey2017" /> At that time ze was homeless "because of my first journalling attempts being discovered and outing me".<ref name="WalshPeterPan">{{Cite web |title=Sassafras Lowrey on Queering Peter Pan |last=Walsh |first=Matthew |work=Plenitude Magazine |date=11 September 2015 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= http://plenitudemagazine.ca/sassafras-lowrey-on-queering-peter-pan/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320130912/https://plenitudemagazine.ca/sassafras-lowrey-on-queering-peter-pan/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Ze found a support community at a queer youth center in Portland,<ref name="OQV">{{Cite web |title=Sassafras Lowrey |author= |work=Older Queer Voices: The Intimacy of Survival |date=29 January 2017 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= https://olderqueervoices.com/2017/01/29/we-know-how-to-do-this-by-sassafras-lowrey/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630160608/https://olderqueervoices.com/2017/01/29/we-know-how-to-do-this-by-sassafras-lowrey/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref name="leatherati2013">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Sassafras Lowrey |author=Leatherati |work=Medium |date=20 February 2013 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url=https://leatherati.com/interview-with-sassafras-lowrey-4814de9fc673 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721090849/https://leatherati.com/interview-with-sassafras-lowrey-4814de9fc673?gi=f255a85dcd09 |archive-date=21 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> and as an adult, worked to help homeless youth hirself.<ref name="advo_Meet">{{Cite web |title=Meet the LGBT Leaders Who Used to Be Homeless |last1=Lowrey |first1=Sassafras |last2=Shelton |first2=Jama |work=The Advocate |date=6 June 2014 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= https://www.advocate.com/youth/2014/06/06/meet-lgbt-leaders-who-used-be-homeless|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818011747/https://www.advocate.com/youth/2014/06/06/meet-lgbt-leaders-who-used-be-homeless |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

In 2020, Lowrey completed hir Masters of Fine Arts in Fiction with a concentration in Queer Fairytales, at Goddard College.<ref name="WalshRepresentation">{{Cite web |title=Sassafras Lowrey talks genderqueer representation and trans portrayals in fiction |last=Walsh |first=Dominic |work=SciFiPulse.Net |date=24 November 2020 |access-date=27 November 2020 |url= https://scifipulse.net/sassafras-lowrey-talks-genderqueer-representation-and-trans-portrayals-in-fiction/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230226114952/https://www.scifipulse.net/sassafras-lowrey-talks-genderqueer-representation-and-trans-portrayals-in-fiction/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

==Quotes==
{{quote|As a fiction author one of my main goals is to create queer stories for queer readers. For me this means writing a diverse representation of genderqueer/trans characters on the page. The characters in my novels unapologetically use a variety of [[pronouns]]. I'm equally committed to normalizing the presence of [[Nonbinary characters in fiction|non-binary characters]] as I am to non-binary language in literature.<ref name="Lowrey2017" />}}

{{quote|I think the best pieces of advice I can give to young/upcoming queer writers is to follow your heart and your gut and tell the stories that need telling, and the ones that maybe only you can tell. I think that as queer writers it’s really important that we take risks with our work.<ref name="Carina">{{Cite web |title=Interview with Sassafras Lowrey |last=Carina |first=Leland |work=Medium |date=9 October 2012 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url=https://leatherati.com/interview-with-sassafras-lowrey-d7a9e138d885 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721090850/https://leatherati.com/interview-with-sassafras-lowrey-d7a9e138d885?gi=ae678ab79a15 |archive-date=21 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>}}

{{quote|For the last sixteen years, the people who I have called family, who I have spent holidays with, those who I have considered my real family, are other queer people. The kids I met in the months and years after running away, whose stories looked like mine and who made me believe there was a future not just for me, but for all of us. We raised each other, created homes together, built our own traditions, reshaping the definition of family. The people in my life I now consider family are not those I was born to, but those who have truly earned and enthusiastically claimed the honor.<ref name="Lowrey2018">{{Cite web |title=Lost Cause: On Estrangement and Chosen Family |last=Lowrey |first=Sassafras |work=Catapult |date=10 May 2018 |access-date=8 May 2020 |url= https://catapult.co/stories/generations-lost-cause-on-estrangement-and-chosen-family|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230324154716/https://catapult.co/stories/generations-lost-cause-on-estrangement-and-chosen-family |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>}}

==Books==
*''Kicked Out'' (2010, editor)
*''Roving Pack'' (2012)
*''Leather Ever After: An Anthology of Kinky Fairy Tales '' (2013, editor)
*''Lost Boi'' (2015)
*''A Little Queermas Carol'' (2016)
*''Tricks in the City'' (2019)
*''Healing/Heeling'' (2019)
*''William To The Rescue: Bedtime Stories for Rescue Dogs'' (2019)
*''Chew This Journal'' (2020)

==Links==
*http://sassafraslowrey.com/

==References==
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