Join us for an online reading and conversation on transfeminine cyberpunk futures with the editor, Ann LeBlanc, and three contributors to Embodied Exegesis: Elly Bangs, Catherine Kim and Petra Skelton.

Embodied Exegesis: Transfeminine Cyberpunk Futures is an anthology of cyberpunk and posthuman stories written by transfem authors. The included stories explore the limits of the genre: gender-affirming cybernetics, the literary surveillance state, transcendent hive-minds, a transgender coffee machine, and weaponized shitposts. The future of cyberpunk is trans, so stay tuned for an anthology of wild and weird stories exploring the limits of technological transformations of our bodies and minds.

Ann LeBlanc is a writer, editor, and woodworker. Her stories have been published in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, and Baffling Magazine. Her debut novella, The Transitive Properties of Cheese, is forthcoming from Neon Hemlock Press in 2024. You can find her online at annleblanc.com

Elly Bangs lives in Seattle, where she fixes machines and rides her bicycle. Her apocalyptic cyberpunk collective-consciousness novel, UNITY, can be found wherever books are sold. Her short fiction has appeared in Lightspeed Magazine, Clarkesworld Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and elsewhere. You can find more of her work at elbangs.com.

Catherine Kim is a transgender Korean Canadian writer studying in the United States. Her work can be found in Black Warrior Review, Fairy Tale Review, Nat. Brut, the Transcendent series, the Nameless Woman anthology, and elsewhere. Her writing has been awarded the Frances Mason Harris ‘26 Prize, shortlisted for the Sunburst Award, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She earned an MFA at Brown University and is currently a PhD student at the University of Denver.

Petra Skelton is a nonbinary transfemme (she/they) that enjoys designing tabletop roleplaying games, building and painting miniatures, and writing zines and other fiction. She enjoys exploring body horror, mecha, and a whole host of other weird themes. Her latest project is Bellum Arcana, a tarot-based TTRPG about revenge and the secret war to claim it! To keep updated find her on Twitter, itch.io, Bluesky, and Instagram @preapocalypse.