TORREY PETERS

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Torrey Peters is an American author. Peters’s first two self-published novellas, The Masker and Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, were published online in 2016…The Masker is about a person contemplating transitioning from male to female. Set in a dystopian future where bioterrorism has destroyed the body’s ability to produce sex hormones, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones follows Patient Zero and her cat-and-mouse relationship with Lexi, a working-class, gun-obsessed trans girl. Glamour Boutique, Peters’s third novella, explores a casual Craigslist encounter at a crossdressers’ boutique store. In 2021, it was announced that Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker would be reissued by Random House in 2022 and would be published in a collection under the title Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones. Peters’ debut novel, Detransition, Baby, published by Penguin Random House Profile Books in 2021, was met with critical success and praise for crafting an exploration of gender, parenthood, and love. The main characters are Reese, a trans woman working in PR and former partner of Amy; Amy, who detransitions and becomes Ames; and Katrina, a Chinese Jewish woman who is Ames’ boss and pregnant with his child. Detransition, Baby was nominated for the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, making Peters the first openly trans woman nominated for the award. Peters came out as transgender at age 26. At 30, she began taking hormones to physically transition. [Source]

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