Swimmers in Winter

Fiction. Short Stories. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Sharp and stylistic, the trifecta of diptychs that is SWIMMERS IN WINTER swirls between real and imagined pasts and futures to delve into our present cultural moment: conflicts between queer people and the police, the impact of homophobia, bullying, and PTSD, the dynamics of women's friendships, life for queer women in Toronto during WWII and after, the intersections between class identities and queer identities, experiences of economic precarity and precarious living conditions, the work of being an artist, dystopian worlds, and the impact of gentrification on public space. These are soul-searching, plot-driven character studies equally influenced by James Baldwin, Christopher Isherwood, and Elena Ferrante.