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A memoir of the body, a generous and candid invitation into a life, Kaya Wilson's stunning debut As Beautiful as Any Other is an account of gender transition and a lyrical meditation on identity, inheritance, trauma, home, work and belonging.

About the Author

Kaya Wilson is a writer and tsunami scientist based in Australia. His non-fiction writing blends essay and memoir to explore universal themes of identity, gender and origin. Kaya's work has been published widely including by Pan Macmillan, Brow Books, The Guardian and Overland. He was the winner of the of the 2019 Writing NSW Varuna Fellowship, a runner-up in the 2019 Kill Your Darlings New Critic Award, longlisted for the Kill Your Darlings unpublished manuscript award, and was shortlisted for Penguin Australia's Write It Fellowship.