Torrey Peters’ whip smart debut novel Detransition, Baby was described by The Guardian as “the first great trans realist novel” and earned praise from fellow authors including Curtis Sittenfeld, Chris Kraus and Roxane Gay.

A social comedy about three women – transgender and cisgender – whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy, it won the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction, was longlisted for The Women’s Prize for Fiction and was named a Best Book of the Century by the New York Times.

In her first appearance at AWF, Peters joins Victor Rodger to discuss her lauded beginnings as a writer and introduce her second book, Stag Dance, which is acidly funny and breathtaking in scope, with the inventive audacity of George Saunders or Jennifer Egan.