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Kyla Schuller is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University—New Brunswick, where she investigates the intersections between race, gender, sexuality, and the life sciences in U.S. culture. She was an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, and she’s held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the UC Humanities Research Institute. Her essays appear in in academic journals such as American Literature, American Quarterly, and GLQ as well as popular outlets including Slate, The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Avidly.

This month’s guest Non-Fiction by Non-Men interviewer is Kimi Ceridon. She a freelance writer in Medford, Massachusetts. Her writing has been published in Bon Appetit, Dreamers, HerStry, For Women Who Roar, and Snapdragon. Her new endeavor for 2022 is launching a Grazing Board Business called Life Love Cheese.

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In the sixth of her series of interviews with women who write nonfiction, E.B. Bartels speaks with bestselling memoirist and opinion writer Jennifer Finney Boylan.

Jennifer Finney Boylan’s memoir, She’s Not There: a Life in Two Genders(Broadway/Doubleday 2003) was the first bestselling work by a transgender American. A novelist, memoirist, short story writer, and an advocate for civil rights, she is the author of thirteen books. Boylan also has been a contributor to the op/ed page of The New York Times since 2007; in 2013 she became Contributing Opinion Writer for the page. She serves as the national co-chair of the Board of Directors of GLAAD, the media advocacy group for LGBT people worldwide, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the Kinsey Institute for Research on Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Boylan is the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University.

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