About
Callum Angus is a trans writer, publisher, and teacher. 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 next book, Stream, 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 workshopsfocusing primarily on speculative literature, unusual forms, and of course, trans nature writing, and in 2025 he launched the celium workshop at celiumlit.net. If you're interested in taking a class with Cal, that's the place to go.
