Callum Angus is the author of the story collection A Natural History of Transition (Metonymy Press, 2021) which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Fiction, the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and an Oregon Book Award. His work has appeared in Joyland, Orion, Nat. Brut, and many other venues, and was anthologized in Kink, a collection edited by Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon. He has received fellowships and residencies from Lambda Literary, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology. A former bookseller, he holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He now makes his home in Portland, Oregon, where he edits the literary journal smoke and mold, teaches writing workshops online and in-person, and is at work on a novel of decay.