“INVASIONS blew my mind...Gimpelevich’s writing is strong and sure, taking us places we really haven’t been. I’m hooked.”

-Michelle Tea

“In these edgy, strange stories, characters transform, transition, and transgress to discover themselves and, sometimes, each other.”

-Carter Sickels

“This is one of the most gripping, crisp, and moving collections of short fiction I have read in a long time.”

-Casey Plett

Calvin Gimpelevich is a former National Endowments for the Arts Fellow, the recipient of a Lambda Literary Award, and the author of Invasions (Instar 2018). His work has been recognized by Artist Trust, Jack Straw Cultural Center, 4Culture, CODEX/Writer’s Block, Studios at MASS MoCA, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts; it has appeared in Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, A Public Space, The Best American Essays 2022 and The Best American Short Stories 2026. He founded the T4T Reading Series in Boston, MA and currently lives in New York. 

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