Annie Liontas

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 was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia's Literary Award. Their debut novel Let Me Explain You was a New York Times Editors Choice book.  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, Electric Literature, BOMB, Lithub, The Believer, American Short Fiction, McSweeney’s, Oprah Daily, and elsewhere. Annie helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. Annie co-hosts the literary podcast LitFriends and lives in Philadelphia with their wife, dog, and Email the rabbit.