Meredith Talusan (she/they) received a Creative Capital Award, MacDowell Fellowship, and Special Mentions from the Pushcart Prize and Best American Short Stories in 2023; her stories appear in Guernica, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Epoch, The Rumpus, Grand, Catapult, and BLR. Her debut memoir, Fairest, was a 2020 Lambda Literary Award finalist and named a best book of the year by multiple venues. She has contributed to ten other books and written articles for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and WIRED among many outlets. She has received journalism awards from GLAAD, The Society of Professional Journalists, and NLGJA. She is also the founding executive editor of them., Condé Nast’s LGBTQ+ digital platform.
