The AMETHYST EDITIONS imprint champions emerging queer writers who employ genre-bending narratives and experimental writing styles, and complicates the conversation around American LGBTQ+ experiences beyond a coming out story. AMETHYST EDITIONS was founded by artist and author Michelle Tea.
CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM AMETHYST EDITIONS:
Michelle Tea
A dreamlike, dystopian meditation on sobriety, adulthood, and the obligations of storytelling.
Julián Delgado Lopera
This multilingual novel follows a Colombian teenager’s coming-of-age and coming out.
Megan Milks
A queer coming-of-age novel about the twists and turns of gender, identity, and mystery.
Carley Moore
A novel of sex-positive awakening and burgeoning political resistance, set in Occupy-era New York City.
Edited by Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos
The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
Carley Moore
During the coronavirus pandemic, a queer disabled woman bikes through a locked-down NYC for the ex-girlfriend who broke her heart.
Luke Dani Blue
This debut story collection blurs fantasy and reality, excavating new meanings from our varied dysphorias.
Brontez Purnell
An uninhibited exploration of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama.
Jamika Ajalon
A portrait of young Black artists in the 1990s London underground, whose existence is threatened by the rise of state surveillance.
Ali Liebegott
A poet documents grief, loss, and life in this autobiographical novel-in-verse.
Michelle Tea
A glamorous drag queen teaches two siblings about the magic of dress up, self-expression, and imaginative storytelling.
Ariel Gore
Magick spells and inverted fairy tales combat queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans.
Michelle Tea
Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms