Gender, sexuality and the search for a safe identity connect Kacen Callender’s books across age categories and genres. Felix Ever After follows a Black trans teenager at an art school who begins a revenge plan after someone publicly shares old photographs and his deadname, then finds the resulting relationships more complicated than expected. King and the Dragonflies centres on a Louisiana boy grieving his brother while questioning family expectations and his feelings for another boy. Callender’s adult fiction includes Queen of the Conquered, a Caribbean-inspired fantasy about colonial power, and contemporary relationship novels. Their prose is direct, emotionally open and character-led. For discovery, the work connects most naturally with LGBTQ+ YA, trans fiction, middle-grade identity stories and queer speculative fiction. Read more Less
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