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)
Contributor (“Nightmare Protocol”) to 2025 Emerge Anthology, Lambda Literary (2026)
August is at work on a nonfiction book that combines personal narrative with trans horror film criticism to explore obsession, ghosts, horror, and mental illness.
Hippocampus Magazine Reviews (2026)
Review of Zefyr Lisowski’s Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love
Review of Caroline Tracey’s Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History
Essays
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 