In a year overflowing with phenomenal debut novels, the Best Transfeminine Debut category is by far the most competitive Shortlist tonight. Congratulations to the eight novels that made the Shortlist, and the entire debbie class of 2025! Voting will remain open until December 26th at 11:59pm EST.

wrote about olivia nuzzi for substack gracebyron.substack.com/p/dont-spill...

🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We're joined by the brilliant @emotrophywife.bsky.social, author of the superb novel Herculine! We talk utopian desire, separatist politics, the challenges of solidarity, pacts with demons (literal and otherwise), and much, much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

Antonio Moresco’s THE BEGINNINGS is “a sublime masterpiece” ( @emotrophywife.bsky.social ) More info this Friday...

LOVED chatting with Grace about her excellent novel!!

The wonderful @katpburke.bsky.social spoke to me about Herculine, Greer Lankton, God, and sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/herc...

For @newstatesman1913.bsky.social wrote about a pretty terrible Luigi Mangione biography, monarchism, and ecoterrorism www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

new & restocked horror now available at b&n sioux falls!

In a July @slate.com "What Next" podcast, guest Grace Byron ( @emotrophywife.bsky.social ) discusses the trans community analogues: bit.ly/4a5E551

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Please consider donating to Crips for eSims for Gaza in Alice Wong's memory. #ConnectingGaza chuffed.org/project/crip...

I too would like to disappear for a year from the public eye while I write my book in Malibu

I spoke with Heather McCalden about Herculine, criticism, King Arthur, demons, and "the New York novel" for Worms Magazine www.wormsmagazine.com/wormhole/gra...

On Florence and the Machine’s sixth album, “Everybody Scream,” Florence Welch confronts real-life horror with gothic fury. “These new songs don’t ripple with doubt but with fear and fury,” Grace Byron writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tVQBb6

Mahmoud sent me this video of the tents his family are living in- he is asking for help with something so modest

thank you ever for an amazing west coast tour leg

San Diego! Last stop until Chicago next month

Writer and critic Grace Byron joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why gun ownership among trans individuals.

The witchy references in “Everybody Scream,” Florence and the Machine’s sixth album, feel particularly well suited to an album that charts the sacrifices that Florence Welch has made to have her work taken seriously, Grace Byron writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/E2vRoL

see you tonight oakland!

Upcoming Tour Stops: November 4th in Oakland: www.eventbrite.com/e/grace-byro... November 6th in LA: www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig... November 7th in San Diego: thebookcatapult.com/event/2025-1...

Does this book make me look queer?

“Herculine” by Grace Byron. Excellent spooky season listen. Also, excellent cover.

See you tonight Portland! Oakland on Tuesday and LA on Thursday!

If you were looking to close out this spooky season with some scary good trans horror, do I have the list for you! Featuring frights by @emotrophywife.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social, @zefrrr.bsky.social, @eveharms.com , @scumbelievable.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, and more!

Finally picked up a copy of @emotrophywife.bsky.social's Herculine - didn't realize that this would be a suitable Halloween read that taps into religious fear and demonic figures 👿😱🔥

So proud of my city. 👊❤️ (Albany Park is a diverse neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago.) * Continuing to fight the "Chicago is a hellhole" narrative: I saw this because I biked a few miles to a lovely chocolate cafe on a gorgeous fall day where the leaves were starting to turn golden.

if you know a trans kid (or parent of a trans kid!) affected by recent clinic closures, looking to chat for a story

Too many people seem to believe that “wokeism” has killed art, rather than enriched it. And yet trans people have been underrepresented in major institutions even before Trump’s suppression of so-called gender ideology, Grace Byron writes.

Book Haul. Finally found @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social 's book in the wilds.

Ever since Donald Trump was first elected President, in 2016, a slew of books have attempted to reckon with the growing divide between urban and rural populations in the U.S. Few do so as deftly as Beth Macy’s new book, “Paper Girl,” Grace Byron writes.

feels so nice to see covers I illustrated on display!! These ones were at Strand

west coast, see you in a week

this session's CRIT guests <3 @emotrophywife.bsky.social @aidenarata.bsky.social Stephanie Wambugu

see you tonight Boston!

Hey @emotrophywife.bsky.social, look what was in today’s library haul

see you tonight providence and tomorrow in boston for book tour!!

I present the final stack of books for my 2025 Halloween reading! With some excellent last minute editions from @haileypiperfights.bsky.social and @emotrophywife.bsky.social. I'm so damn excited lol 😈🗡️

IMO the best way to finish @emotrophywife.bsky.social ‘s excellent book Herculine is to read it in a park while the local brass band practices the Ghostbusters theme

In this week's special episode of #LARBRadioHour, Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak with writer Grace Byron (@emotrophywife.bsky.social) about her debut novel, "Herculine." https://lareviewofbooks.org/av/grace-byrons-herculine/

A brilliant and very necessary essay from @emotrophywife.bsky.social (feat. a SAD TIGER shoutout!!): "These authors don’t blame themselves, they merely try to consider what healing looks like outside of institutional structures." gracebyron.substack.com/p/chokehold

I'm hit or miss with this podcast, but when I heard they were covering @emotrophywife.bsky.social and her new novel, "Herculine" I immediately started listening. If you've been under a rock, Byron is trans & has written amazing articles in a wide array of outlets. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Honored to chat about Herculine for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/10k9...

Boston! See you in one week with @scumbelievable.bsky.social brooklinebooksmith.com/event/2025-1...

I went on Urgent Futures to talk about my book, politics, and ghosts. open.spotify.com/episode/463v...

an animation i did of the cover of @emotrophywife.bsky.social's novel "herculine". dope ass original cover art by @egallagher.bsky.social

Happy publication week to Grace Byron (@emotrophywife.bsky.social)! You can revisit our interview with her about "Herculine" and cultural criticism: studyhall.xyz/free-newslet...

Working on something fun 👀 Follow here on Bluesky or find out more on the website: www.localfiles.club

Interview Mag x Herculine x Rayne Fisher-Quann www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/i...