website for Callum Angus
STREAM: Living in Flux is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press in 2027, and is available for preorder now.
"Stream is an exploration of the large- and small-scale changes taking place in a single body and on our planet as a whole. Using a stream as a biological, technological, and psychological metaphor, Angus layers lyric essay, journal entries, and the detritus of a life spent writing about the climate within and without to consider how we remain fluid in a time of constant change. Each section of Stream flows into the next, weaving through thaws, floods, cataracts, and eddies while asking how a melting of rigid categories, from seasons to gender, might help us approach a changing world anew. From winery workers dying in the fields to endangered desert tortoises unable to outrun the flames, Stream is an outpouring of climatological grief toward those who perpetuate inaction, an elegy for those we’ve lost to the heat, and a tribute to the tributaries that help us see the world from other perspectives."
The beautiful cover art is handcut collage by my very talented friend James Page.
Praise for Stream
“Stream is a book about presence—what we feel, what we make, what we choose, what we hold, how we hold on. By merging gender transition and climate change, ecstasy and boredom, mourning and witness, Callum Angus creates a book of capacious mystery and dynamic clarity where ‘the pages are the water,’ so we can flow. Elegantly crafted from a series of observational texts that speak to one another, between one another, between us, here the declarative meets the embodied meets the inquisitive. At once searing and savoring, this is a book that teaches us how to stay present in a world that is always ending.” —Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, author of Social Distancing
“Deeply engrossing and unquestionably beautiful, Stream is a much-needed addition to queer/trans literature.” —Zoë Bossiere, author of Cactus Country
Readings & Events
**Special Halloween Event** In Conversation with Bruno George for the launch of The Coward Ulf Blank, 3:30-5pm, October 31, 2026, at the Cathy Hillenbrand Room in Seattle, WA.
Other Books
CATARACT, Fonograf Editions, 2024
A Natural History of Transition, Metonymy Press, 2021
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