A reading and conversation with magical realist author Anya Johanna DeNiro.

Anya Johanna DeNiro is a fantasy and science fiction writer based in Minnesota. She has written two collections, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead and Tyrannia and Other Renditions both published by Small Beer Press.  She has also published numerous short stories that have been featured in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Tor, Persistent Visions, and many other anthologies, collections, and blogs. She is also the author of the novella City of A Thousand Feelings by publisher Aqueduct Press (2020), which is about the friendship between two trans women in a world of violence and magic. She has also created video games and written poems. Anya is dedicated to writing stories that center trans women by creating complex and powerful characters that are not simply used as tropes. She aims to tell stories in which trans people can see their authentic selves reflected in the prose. Follow Anya on Twitter @adeniro

Moderated by Dr. Spencer D. C. Keralis. This is event was part of the Becoming a Trans Inclusive Library Project, led by Dr. Keralis on behalf of the Diversity Committees of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University Library and the iSchool. Funding for this event was provided by a Strategic Programs Initiative Fund grant from the Executive Committee of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University Library.