If you’re looking for queer science fiction and fantasy, there is one easy way to find more: read books by lgbtqia+ voices. Stop reading the same hyped books by white cis male straight authors, and you’re sure to find many amazing stories featuring queer characters.
As a (gender)queer person myself, it is especially important to me to uplift those voices that do not only care about including people like me in their worlds, but are also able to show me the many different lives of people with identities such as mine, because we all know, not two experiences are the same, and I love to read about them all.
Below you’ll find a list of trans (as in transgender/agender/genderqueer/non-binary/…) authors, who write adult science fiction and fantasy.
Pronouns are listed as they appeared on twitter / in the author’s bio at the time of adding the author to the list (I’ll do my best to keep this up to date/check again occasionally).
Stories marked with an asterisk are available for free online.
(this is in no way a complete list of all their books. I limited myself to 2 each at max, and only if they differ in genres or formats/length)
Alex Acks / Alex Wells (they/them)
Paige S. Allen (she/they)
Charlie Jane Anders (she/her)
Ryka Aoki (she/her)
Ness Brown (they/them)
L.X. Beckett / A.M. Dellamonica (they/them)
Robyn Bennis (she/her)
Brooke Bolander (she/they)
Andi C. Buchanan (they/them)
Kacen Callender (they/them)
Nino Cipri (they/them)
C.L. Clark (they/she/sir)
Sara Codair (they/she)
Indrapramit/Indra Das (he/they)
Juno Dawson (she/her)
Maya Deane (she/her)
K.A. Doore (she/they)
Akwaeke Emezi (they/them)
Isaac Fellman (he/him)
J.S. Fields (they/them)
A.J. Fitzwater (she/they)
Sarah Gailey (they/them)
Leigh Harlen (they/them)
Alex Harrow / Alex Jay Lore (he/him)
Alyc Helms (they/them)
Ada Hoffmann (she/they)
S.L. Huang (any)
S.A. Hunt (she/her)
Ren Hutchings (she/they)
Naseem Jamnia (they/them)
Tamara Jerée (they/them)
Cassandra Khaw (they/them)
Margaret Killjoy (she/they)
Joss Lake (he/him)
Laura Lam (she/they)
Yoon Ha Lee (he/him)
Stina Leicht (she/they)
R.B. Lemberg (they/them)
Linden Lewis (she/they)
S. Qiouyi Lu (ae/aer/aers)
Lee Mandelo (he/they)
Everina Maxwell (she/they)
Foz Meadows ("Jack of all pronouns")
Emmet Nahil (he/him)
Blue Neustifter (she/her)
Annalee Newitz (they/them)
Shelley Parker-Chan (she/they)
C.L. Polk (they/them)
Chana Porter (she/they)
Cat Rambo (they/she)
Zin E. Rocklyn (she/they)
Ashton K. Rose (they/them)
Alexandra Rowland (they/them)
V.E. Schwab (she/they)
Nisi Shawl (they/them)
Rivers Solomon (fae/faer)
Rachel Swirsky (she/they/ze)
K.M. Szpara (he/him)
RJ Theodore (she/they)
Addie Tsai (they/them)
K.B. Wagers (they/them)
Alex White (they/them)
Coreg J. White (they/them)
Ally Wilkes (she/they)
Alyssa Wong (they/them)
Neon Yang (they/them)
