Calvin Gimpelevich
Calvin Gimpelevich is an American writer. He is the founder of the T4T Reading Series in Boston, Massachusetts, and a founding member of the Lion’s Main Art Collective in Seattle, Washington.[1][2][3] He was born in San Francisco, and has lived around the West Coast and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[4][5]
Education
[edit]Gimpelevich received a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2012.[6]
Writing
[edit]Gimpelevich is the author of the short story collection Invasions (Instar Books, 2018), a Lambda Literary Awards finalist.[7]
His writing has also appeared in Los Angeles Review of Books, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, A Public Space, Joyland, The Stinging Fly, Cream City Review, Them, The Account, and elsewhere. [8] [9]
He has been anthologized in The Best American Essays 2022 (HarperCollins, 2022), Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers (LittlePuss Press, 2021), and The Collection: Short Fiction from the Transgender Vanguard (Topside Press, 2012).[10][11][12]
Gimpelevich works in both fiction and nonfiction. Common themes in his writing include ways that class and technologies operate on queer bodies and relationships; transgression; morality; and the fluidity of perception and identity.[13][14][15][16] His fiction operates at the intersection of speculative fiction and literary realism.[17]
T4T and Lion's Mane
[edit]In 2023, Gimpelevich founded the T4T Reading Series, a monthly event in Boston that spotlights published transgender authors. Gimpelevich ran the series from 2023-25.[18] Past featured readers include McKenzie Wark, Emily Zhou, Jeanne Thornton, Andrea Lawlor, Denne Michele Norris, Torrey Peters, Imogen Binnie, Casey Plett, Jordy Rosenberg, Cameron Awkward-Rich, and others.[19]
He is also a founding member of the Lion’s Main Art Collective for Queer and Trans Artists, a Seattle-based group of artists working across a variety of media, which has exhibited together and organized events at cultural institutions since 2013.[20][21]
Awards and distinctions
[edit]Gimpelevich is a 2022 NEA Fellow and a recipient of the 2020 Markowitz Emerging Writers Award from Lambda Literary.[22][23]
His work has been recognized by Artist Trust, Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4Culture, CODEX/Writer's Block, Studios at Mass MoCA, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Speculative Literature Foundation, and Woodward Residency.[24][25]
His webcomic, Wolfmen, was awarded the 2014 Prism Comics Queer Press Grant.[26]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Boston Media Theory T4T Reading Series". YouTube.com. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Calvin Gimpelevich". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Calvin Gimpelevich". KHN Center for the Arts. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Invasions Book Launch With Calvin Gimpelevich and Trans Authors in Conversation". Trident Booksellers and Cafe. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Calvin Gimpelevich". Poets & Writers. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Calvin Gimpelevich LinkedIn". linkedin.com. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Lambda Announces Markowitz Award Winners". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Calvin Gimpelevich - Directory of Writers from Poets & Writers". Poets & Writers. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Writing". CalvinGimpelevich.com. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "The Best American Essays 2022". The Best American Essays. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Transgender Writers". LittlePuss Press. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "The Collection". Internet Archive. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Why We Chose It: "Burned Location" by Calvin Gimpelevich". The Kenyon Review. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Calvin Gimpelevich's 'Invasions' considers the body". City Arts Magazine. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Invaded Life Forms: Talking With Calvin Gimpelevich". Seattle Review of Books. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Xandria Phillips and Calvin Gimpelevich Win 2020 Markowitz Award". Lambda Literary. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Invaded Life Forms: Talking With Calvin Gimpelevich". Seattle Review of Books. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Boston Media Theory T4T Reading Series". YouTube.com. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "T4T Readings". T4T Readings. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Seattle's Queer and Trans Art Collective Lion's Main Shows Teeth in Its New Show". Seattle Weekly.
- ↑ "Lion's Main Art Collective". Lion's Mane Art Collective. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Calvin Gimpelevich". National Endowment for the Arts. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Lambda Announces Markowitz Award Winners". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Bio - Calvin Gimpelevich". calvingimpelevich.com. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Calvin Gimpelevich". Woodward Residency. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
- ↑ "Velcro". Cream City Review. Retrieved March 15, 2026.
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- University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellows
- Lambda Literary Award winners
- LGBTQ people from San Francisco