Non-Fiction by Non-Men: Grace Lavery

For the full interview, see it on Fiction Advocate.
Published on October 3, 2022.

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Please pay no attention to the fact that the “September” Non-Fiction by Non-Men interview was published in October!

Grace Lavery is a writer, editor, and academic living in Brooklyn, NY. As an Associate Professor of English, Critical Theory, and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, her research explores the history and theory of aesthetics and interpretation, with particular interests in psychoanalysis, literary realism, and queer and trans cultures. She is the author of Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan, which published by Princeton University Press in 2019, and her speculative memoir, Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis, which was published by Seal Press in 2022. Grace has a husband named Daniel and a Japanese Chin named Bon-Bon. She enjoys cooking and walking.