LittlePuss Press is a feminist press run by trans women.
We believe in printing on paper, intensive editing, and throwing lots of parties.
Our titles have been featured in The New York Times, Vogue, New York magazine, NPR, and Artforum, among others.
press contact Casey Plett: casey@littlepuss.net
LittlePuss Press
FORTHCOMING TITLES:
Vivid stories of hard-partying Chicago trans women in the 2020s—right here, right now. In this crackling collection of stories, Sloane Murphy shows a beautiful and wrecked scene of young Chicago trans women. With the clairvoyance of Michelle Tea and the precision of Raymond Carver, Shut Up, I Love You, I’ll Call You Tomorrow is a conduit of bleary electricity inside a stubborn, still-beating heart.
“Sloane Murphy shows why fun is fun, honesty hurts, and friendships are heartbreak.”
—Alice Stoehr, author of Again, Harder
$16.95 | 9781964322148 | FICTION/LGBTQ+ | coming Nov 2026
Vivid stories of hard-partying Chicago trans women in the 2020s—right here, right now.
“Sloane Murphy shows why fun is fun, honesty hurts, and friendships are heartbreak.”
—Alice Stoehr, author of Again, Harder
“Puts readers in a fictionalized version of the bar stools and kitchen tables where she once sat to preserve those stories for future generations … [an] early 2020s time capsule.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
"Feels like catching up on gossip about a friend of a friend...perfect details...laugh out loud funny.”
—Ren Dean, Skunk Cabbage Books (Chicago, IL)
The definitive epic of crime and gay sex. As if Hothead Paisan crashed into Ducks, Newburyport, as if Pansy Division set off on a Don Quixote adventure, as if the Blues Brothers came back as young transsexual prostitute lovers, Crime Cube: Molly & Pyxxy Do Crimes is the outlandish, showstopping, never-try-this-at-home punk rock romp of the century.
“Like being struck by lightning.” —Imogen Binnie, The New York Times
$26.95 | 9781964322100 | FICTION/LGBTQ+ | coming Feb 2027
FEATURED BACKLIST:
A magical girl-gone-bad and a renegade mech pilot must stay on a date forever, even if it means destroying the world. Don’t you want to help them? She was a trans girl who was also an intergalactic moth-goddess. He was a trans guy who piloted a giant robotic tiger. They hated each other, then fell in love, then their universes moved apart. Now, years later, he's turned up in her dimension again. What won’t she do to keep him there?
“A riotous crossover of literary fiction meets romantasy.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review)
$19.95 | 9781964322025 | FICTION/Fantasy/Romance | May 2026
A trans woman discovers pornography of herself she has no memory of making, only to find herself led to an unimaginably deeper evil. In Aoife Josie Clements’ electric, nightmarish, intricately layered novel, the impossibility of goodness crowds in upon two young trans women barely surviving on sex work and zero-hours contracts. Below the familiar evils of capitalism and the bottomless depths of internet culture, a deeper horror awaits.
“The year’s great work of literary horror.” —Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt
$17.95 | 9781964322063 | FICTION/Horror | Jan 2026
A long-lost zine reveals the secret history of contemporary transgender culture. In 1993, Mirha Soleil-Ross and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay, fed up with a gay scene that rejected trans people and a trans scene that saw no alternative to going “stealth,” began to publish the zine Gendertrash From Hell. Over four issues, they interviewed sex workers and prisoners; they printed collages, soap operas and polemics; they ran regular sections with titles like “Trannies Speak Out” and “Hooker of the Month”. They redefined transsexual culture forever.
“A breathtaking archive of our community ... An absolute vital work for a precipitous time.” —Lilly Wachowski, co-director of The Matrix
$27.95 | 9781964322087 | LITERARY COLLECTIONS/LGBTQ+ | Nov 2025
A trans essayist with a checkered past takes on the big questions of human existence. Set against a backdrop of trans life that begins with her own transition in the 1960s, Vivian Blaxell takes us on a witty and expansive sweep through history, from Australia to Japan, to Hawai’i to Mexico, to heretofore unmapped regions of the mind. Fleshy and philosophical, searching and exalted, utterly distinctive and assured, Worthy of the Event belatedly establishes Vivian Blaxell as one of the major writers of her generation.
“Astonishing … confident, nimble … teeming with wonder and wicked humor … readers craving a break from the mundane will be grateful Blaxell has shared these stunning explorations.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
$19.95 | 9781964322995 | LITERARY COLLECTIONS/ESSAYS | Apr 2025
From legendary activist and Pose actress Cecilia Gentili comes the Stonewall Award-winning groundbreaking debut of a transgender Latina childhood that re-orders the field of LGBTQ+ memoir. Writing to childhood figures such as her rapist’s daughter, her father’s mistress, her best friend, and her mother, Gentili probes deeply into the bitter cruelty, buried secrets, and delicious gossip of a small town. Is she here for revenge, or forgiveness? Both! And more! A story of sex, theft, murder, motherhood, and outrageous fashion choices, Faltas is a beautiful, messy meditation on what it takes to heal, or even grow.
Winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award's Barbara Gittings Literature Award • Finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Non-Fiction
“One of the best memoirs I’ve ever read.” —Autostraddle
$19.95 | 9781736716823 | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/LGBTQ+ | Oct 2022
Now cheaper and smaller, the original 2017 Stonewall Award-winning collection of trans sci-fi and fantasy is back in print, with a new afterword from the editors. Featuring trans literary icons like Ryka Aoki, Jeanne Thornton, Imogen Binnie, and others, Meanwhile, Elsewhere is a landmark, unmissable volume of queer science fiction.
Winner of the ALA Stonewall Book Award's Barbara Gittings Literature Award • Finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Anthology • An SPD #1 Fiction Bestseller
“This book changed the way I dream.” —Zoey Leigh Peterson, author of Next Year, For Sure
$25.00 | 9781964322001 | FICTION/Science Fiction /Collections & Anthologies | Feb 2025
train hopping
pill popping
fur wearing
sink pissing
tranny punk Odes!
Like a digital-age Wanda Coleman, like a transsexual Kevin Killian, like Elizabeth Smart infused with Sybil Lamb, Missed Connections with Tall Girls establishes Aube as a brash and unstoppable singular voice for a monstrous new world.
As heard on CBC • An Autostraddle Most Anticipated Queer Book for April
"Gwen is my favourite kind of poet, the kind with clear eyes that truly see other humans." —katherena vermette, author of The Break and Procession
$14.95 | 9781964322971 | Poetry | April 2026
Seven heartstoppingly gorgeous stories about transgender Gen Z life spanning the Upper Midwest to New York City. Funny and devastating, like a trans Mary McCarthy, Zhou depicts with shocking precision the choices and shifts through which we work on each other and ourselves. Tender, merciless, and gracious, Girlfriends is a breath of fresh air.
Winner of the Publishing Triangle Leslie Feinberg Award For Trans and Gender-Variant Literature • Finalist for the Publishing Triangle Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction • Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction
“Girlfriends sounds a loud bell announcing the change of guard: a generational arrival. Here is a writer who can scrap with the likes of Ann Beattie or Richard Ford but attends parties to which those boomers (or for that matter, we millennials) would never get invited.”
—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
$19.95 | 9781736716847 | Fiction (Short stories) | October 2023
Finally, a book for men!
It is definitely not a deeply felt collection of transsexual short stories, engaged in dissident metaphysical investigation of the normative tenets of gender in our society! Bro, how could you say that? It is very dramatic and exciting, yes, but it is not metaphysical at all. In fact, it is Realistic Fiction.
“A them BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK OF 2025”
“Hilarious … uncanny … each story feels resonant … so rarely is the transmasc psyche in all of its neuroses explored in such a way.”
—them
$19.95 | 9781736716885 | Fiction (Short stories) | April 2025
A blistering, informed, and hilarious argument on how social media and political activism are fated never to intertwine.
In this impassioned, funny, and deeply thoughtful essay, Katherine Cross excavates a fallen world of social media's political promises—from Twitter epidemiology to revolutionary organizing—and its frustratingly inescapable joys. A kind, incisive, and barbed love letter from one of the millennial generation's wisest essayists, Log Off offers a path out of the doomscroll and into a future where we can organize and live.
"Nuanced, thoughtful, and provocative."
—TED How to Be A Better Human
$19.95 | 9781736716861 | Social Science | June 2024