LONGER BIO

D/ANNIE LIONTAS is the trans-genderqueer author of the crip-queer memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, which won the ALA’s 2025 Stonewall Award for Nonfiction and was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia's Literary Award.  They are a recipient of the Lambda Literary Córdova prize, and their debut novel, Let Me Explain You, was selected as New York Times Editors Choice in 2015.  They co-edited the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors, and their work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Book, BOMB, Lithub, The Believer, American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s, The New Review, Oprah Daily, and elsewhere. A graduate of Syracuse University’s MFA program, Annie is an Associate Professor of writing at George Washington University and serves as faculty at the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon.  They have received residencies from Millay Arts, Lighthouse Works, VCCA and the Hawthornden Foundation in Italy.  Annie has volunteered as a mentor for Pen City’s incarcerated writers and helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system in Washington, DC. They write the Most Anticipated Queer Books list at Electric Literature and live in Philadelphia with their wife, dog, and Email the rabbit. 

 we keep the fires lit ‘till morning

SHORT BIO

D/ANNIE LIONTAS is the trans-genderqueer author of the memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, which won the ALA’s 2025 Stonewall Award for Nonfiction and the 2025 Lambda Literary Córdova prize, as well as the novel Let Me Explain You.  Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Book Review, The New Review, Oprah Daily, and elsewhere. An Associate Professor at George Washington University, LIONTAS helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. They write the Most Anticipated Queer Books list at Electric Literature and live in Philadelphia with their wife, dog, and Email the rabbit. 

we keep the fires lit ‘till morning

EVEN SHORTER

D/ANNIE LIONTAS is the trans-genderqueer author of the memoir Sex with a Brain Injury, which won the ALA’s 2025 Stonewall Award for Nonfiction, and the novel Let Me Explain You. They are an Associate Professor at George Washington University.

we keep the fires lit ‘till morning