Hazel Jane Plante is a librarian, cat photographer, and writer. Her
debut novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) received the 32nd
Annual Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction. She also
releases music under the name lo-fi lioness and helms the podcast
t4t, which is about writing while trans.
She currently lives in Vancouver on the unceded ancestral
territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
"Grief is a process that encompasses the death of the past and of
future possibility. Despite this, Little Blue Encyclopedia is an
undeniably optimistic text, one that takes up mournful subject
matter and suggests ways it can be worked through."
--Quill & Quire, starred review
"Little Blue Encyclopedia understands perfectly how pop culture --
and pop culture fandom -- can become bound up in our lives
inextricably. As the narrator assembles her encyclopedia, memories
of Vivian when she was alive start to trickle into the text.
Sometimes the narrator is conscious of those memories taking over,
and sometimes it happens almost without her having to try."
--Vox
"The last time I read a novel with such a startling, original,
winning first-person narrator was Miriam Toews's
A Complicated Kindness."
-- Paul Headrick, Ormsby Review
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