Tucson Festival of Books

Beyond Pronouns


How much are we prepared to lose to become who we are meant to be? How do poverty and class and what we have left behind influence the next chapter? Our panelists detail their very personal search for self and belonging in a world that seems unprepared to greet them.


Panelists
Zoe Bossiere

Former Tucsonan Zoë Bossiere comes to the festival with their first book, a memoir entitled "Cactus Country." Bossiere is also the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and co-editor of the anthologies The Best of Brevity and The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins....

Oliver Radclyffe

Oliver Radclyffe’s new memoir is "Frighten the Horses." He is part of the new wave of transgender writers unafraid to address the complex nuances of transition, examining the places where gender identity, sexual orientation, feminist allegiance, social class and family history overlap....

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Books:
The Lyric Essay as Resistance
Truth from the Margins
Zoe Bossiere
Southwest Books of the Year
Wayne State University Press
January 2023
ISBN 9780814349601
224 pages
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Frighten the Horses
Oliver Radclyffe
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Grove Atlantic
September 2024
ISBN 9780802163158
352 pages
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Alligator Tears
A Memoir in Essays
Edgar Gomez
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Random House
February 2025
ISBN 9780593728543
256 pages
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