August Owens Grimm

Books

Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives (co-editor)
Jessica Kingsley Publishers/Hachette (2021)

August is at work on Back from the Dead: A Haunted Memoir, which combines personal narrative with trans horror film criticism to explore obsessions, ghosts, and borderline personality disorder.

Essays

Fat in the Psych Ward
NAAFA Blog (2025)

Who Gets to Wear the Speedo?
NAAFA Blog (2024)

All of Us Ghosts
true (2024)

The Asylum in Not a Halloween Attraction
Zócalo Public Square (2023)

Where I Go: Hunting Queer Ghosts in Chicago
Zócalo Public Square (2022)

My Hand on the Glass
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror, Feminist Press (2022)

Ghost Pansy
Awst Press (2022)

Inventory of a Haunted House, No. 4 (reprint)
Sunday Short Reads (2021)

Inventory of a Haunted House, No. 4
Sweet: A Literary Confection (2021)

Haunted Memoir
Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies (2020)

Inventory of a Haunted House, No. 1
Ghost City Review (2020)

Cultland Essay Series, Iron Horse Literary Review (2018-2019)
#1: Green
#2: Holy Ghost
#3: Demons
#4: Reinvention

Dropping Fictions & Gaining Visibility
The Rumpus (2016)

Reviews

The Haunted Library: A Review of Samantha Hunt’s The Unwritten Book
New City Lit (04/22)

The Ins & Outs of Queer Joy: A Review of Edgar Gomez’s High-Risk Homosexual
New City Lit (02/22)

Foraging for Ghosts: A Review of Marco Wilkinson’s “Madder: A Memoir in Weeds
New City Lit (12/21)

Celestial Hearts: A Review of Melissa Febos’ Girlhood
New City Lit (04/21)

Lonely Together: A Review of Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s The Freezer Door
New City Lit (12/20)

Review of Cheryl Savageau’s Out of the Crazywoods
Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog (09/20)

Ghost Lights: A Review of Paul Lisicky’s Later: My Life at the Edge of the World New City Lit (03/20)