About
short version
Callum Angus is a trans author whose books include the story collection A Natural History of Transition (Metonymy Press 2021), the nonfiction chapbook CATARACT (Fonograf Editions 2024), and STREAM: Life in Flux, forthcoming from Curbstone Books in 2027. Since 2019 he has been the publisher of the journal smoke and mold, which publishes nature writing, broadly defined, by trans and Two-Spirit writers. Cal has taught and lectured at universities and independent organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada for over a decade, and in 2025 introduced the new teaching and publishing ecosystem celiumlit.net. He lives and writes between two rivers in Portland, Oregon.
slightly longer, more insufferable version
Callum Angus is a trans author writing about climate and nature at a time when the truths of both climate change and trans life are denied at the highest levels of government worldwide. He is the author of the short story collection A Natural History of Transition (Metonymy Press, 2021) which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award, an Edmund White Award in Debut Fiction, and an Oregon Book Award. It was also an honorable mention for the Otherwise Award (formerly the Tiptree). His nonfiction chapbook CATARACT was published by Fonograf Editions in 2024. His next book, Stream: Life in Flux, is a work of experimental nonfiction forthcoming from Curbstone Books in 2027.
In 2019, Cal started smoke and mold, an online literary journal with an expiration date that publishes nature writing, broadly defined, by trans and Two-Spirit writers. The journal is still going strong with a team of 20 editors and readers, and publishes two issues per year (along with a smattering of interviews and visual art) until 2031, when the project will be archived in print and online. You can read new and back issues at smokeandmold.net.
Since 2014, Cal has taught creative writing in a variety of universities, workshops, and independent organizations. After burning out on adjuncting and becoming generally disillusioned with the false promises and conservative politics of universities, he started hosting his own online classes and workshops focusing primarily on speculative literature, unusual forms, and of course, trans nature writing, and in 2025 he launched the celium workshop at celiumlit.net. He lives and writes in between two rivers in Portland, Oregon, with his husband the musician Gregory James McKillop, and their cat Beep Beep.
P.O. Box 17506
Portland, OR
97217