Books/Anthologies
Co-editor of Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Live, Jessica Kingsley Publishers/Hachette (2021)
Contributor (My Hand on the Glass) to It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, Feminist Press (2022)
August is at work on a nonfiction book that combines personal narrative with trans horror film criticism to explore the connections between their obsessions with ghosts, the color pink, and Ari Aster’s Hereditary.
Essays
2026
Review of Zefyr Lisowski’s Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love, Hippocampus Magazine
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Fat in the Psych Ward, NAAFA Blog
Who Gets to Wear the Speedo?, NAAFA Blog
All of Us Ghosts, true
The Asylum in Not a Halloween Attraction
Zócalo Public Square
Where I Go: Hunting Queer Ghosts in Chicago, Zócalo Public Square
Ghost Pansy, Awst Press
Inventory of a Haunted House, No. 4 (reprint), Sunday Short Reads
Inventory of a Haunted House, No. 4, Sweet: A Literary Confection
Haunted Memoir, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies
Review of Cheryl Savageau’s Out of the Crazywoods, Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog
Inventory of a Haunted House, No. 1, Ghost City Review
Cultland Essay Series, Iron Horse Literary Review
#1: Green
#2: Holy Ghost
#3: Demons
#4: Reinvention
Dropping Fictions & Gaining Visibility, The Rumpus
New City Lit Reviews
The Haunted Library: A Review of Samantha Hunt’s The Unwritten Book
The Ins & Outs of Queer Joy: A Review of Edgar Gomez’s High-Risk Homosexual
Foraging for Ghosts: A Review of Marco Wilkinson’s “Madder: A Memoir in Weeds
Celestial Hearts: A Review of Melissa Febos’ Girlhood
Lonely Together: A Review of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The Freezer Door
Ghost Lights: A Review of Paul Lisicky’s Later: My Life at the Edge of the World
August Owens Grimm 