Kai Cheng Thom - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Kai Cheng Thom
- Kai Cheng Thom is a Canadian writer and social worker, who has dual master's degrees in social work and couple and family therapy from McGill University.
- She has published four books to date: the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir (2016), the poetry collection a place called No Homeland (2017), a children's book, From the Stars in The Sky to the Fish in the Sea (2017), and I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World (2019), a book of essays centred on transformative justice. Fierce Femmes was a shortlisted Lambda Literary Award nominee for Transgender Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards, and Thom won the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ writers.
- The Dayne Ogilvie jury, consisting of writers Jane Eaton Hamilton, Elio Iannacci and Trish Salah, cited Thom's work as "sheer joyful exuberance, creativity, and talent", calling Fierce Femmes "a delicious and fabulist refashioning of a trans memoir as fiction" and "a genre-breaking refusal of the idea that the only stories trans people have to tell are their autobiographies."In 2018, a place called No Homeland was a shortlisted finalist for the Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature.
