Random Transgender Poets You Should Know (10 items)

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  (#9) Lilith Latini

  The works of trans poet Lilith Latini have appeared in such publications as Troubling the Line: Anthology of Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics as well as her book, Lip Print.
  
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  (#2) Lee Mokobe

  South African slam poet, Lee Mokobe, made a splash with his 2015 TED Talk during which he shared a poem about what it feels like to be transgender. "I was the mystery of an anatomy, a question asked but not answered," he said during the presentation.
  
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  (#7) Sara Woods

  Along with writing Sara or the Existence of Fire and Wolf Doctors, Sara Woods has also published two books of poetry.
  
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  (#6) Trish Salah

  Trish Salah won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction in 2014 for her work, Wanting in Arabic.
  
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  (#5) Trace Peterson

  Trace Peterson is the author of several works including Since I Moved In. In 2015, she introduced the first ever college course on transgender poetry at Hunter College.

  "Literature departments and studies of literature are very comfortable approaching transgender subject matter as theory, or as types of metaphor," Peterson said in an interview with PBS, "But there’s very little study of literature by transgender people." 
  
  She describes her own poem, "After Before and After," as a "love letter to trans women."
  
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  (#1) Dane Edidi

  Dane Edidi is a writer, poet, performing artist, singer and more. In 2013, she became the first trans woman of color to publish a work of fiction which followed a trans woman protagonist.
  
  She has released several books of poetry including Baltimore: A Love Letter and Remains: A Gathering of Bones.
  
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