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Kai Cheng Thom

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Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir Metonymy Press), the poetry collection a place called No Homeland (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2018), and the children's picture book From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li. Her latest book is the essay collection I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes at the End of the World (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2020). Kai Cheng won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.

Books by Kai Cheng Thom

For Laika

The Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars

text by Kai Cheng Thom
illustrated by Kai Yun Ching

Sick of the System

Why the COVID-19 recovery must be revolutionary

contributions by James T. Brophy, nicole marie burton, John Clarke, Anita Girvan, Harry Glasbeek, Hugh Goldring, Dallas Hunt, Andrew Jackson, Emma Jackson, El Jones, Margaret M. Keith, Gary Kinsman, Julie S. Lalonde, Wayne Lewchuk, Robyn Maynard, Jane E. McArthur, Alexander McClelland, Karen Messing, Justin Piché, Elaine Power, Gina Starblanket, Jamie Swift, Richard Swift, Kai Cheng Thom & Alberto Toscano

I Hope We Choose Love

A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

by (author) Kai Cheng Thom

Maiden, Mother, Crone

Fantastical Trans Femmes

edited by Gwen Benaway
contributions by Alexa Fae McDaniel, Kylie Ariel Bemis, Ellen Mellor, Gwynception, Izzy Wasserstein, Audrey Vest, Kai Cheng Thom, Casey Plett, Crystal Frasier & Lilah Sturges
cover design or artwork by Alex Morris
consultant editor Emily Stewart

From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea

text by Kai Cheng Thom
illustrated by Kai Yun Ching & Wai-Yant Li

a place called No Homeland

by (author) Kai Cheng Thom