Annie Liontas

Instructor

Annie Liontas is the trans-genderqueer author of the memoir Sex with a Brain Injury: On Concussion and Recovery, which won the ALA’s 2025 Stonewall Award for Nonfiction and was shortlisted for The Athenaeum of Philadelphia’s Literary Award. Their debut novel Let Me Explain You was a New York Times Editors Choice book.  They co-edited the anthology A Manner of Being: Writers on their Mentors with Parker, and their work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Book, BOMB, McSweeney’s, Oprah Daily, and elsewhere. Annie helped secure a Mellon Foundation grant on Disability Justice to bring storytelling to communities in the criminal justice system. They co-host the literary podcast LitFriends and live in Philadelphia with their wife, dog, and Email the rabbit.