Stag Dance

“Sincere and mind-bending . . . [Stag Dance] is more exciting than anything else around.”—New York

“The four pieces in Stag Dance will leave you bruised, broken and wanting more.”—The New York Times

“[Peters is] one of the boldest, most innovative voices in fiction today.”—Bustle

“Stag Dance is funny, brilliant, and effortlessly original.”—Vulture

“A collection of four shorter works that meld emotionality and manic smuttiness to incredible effect.”—Vanity Fair

“A fascinating exercise in genre experimentation . . . Eschewing straightforward representation, Stag Dance explores the ambiguities of gender and identity, and questions whether ‘trans’ and ‘cis’ are always neatly separable categories. While often dark in subject matter, it’s a delight to read: heartbreaking and hilarious, formally inventive and narratively gripping.”—Dazed

“[Stag Dance perfectly showcases Peters’s] acid wit, incredible talent, and eye for possibility.”—The Chicago Review of Books

“Adventurous, mind-expanding and provocative fiction.”—Bernardine Evaristo, The Guardian

“Deliciously filthy . . . Peters unravels the glorious, aching euphoria of giving in to yourself.”—Big Issue

“You never knew you needed a short story collection that includes lonely lumberjacks exploring queerness and gender, but you do.”—USA Today

“Stunning.”—Cosmopolitan

“Brilliant, mind-blowing . . . Peters’ vision is one where gender roles are never stagnant, and the world is made new by queerness.”—BookPage

“Inventive, boundary-pushing . . . [Stag Dance takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.”—People

“Incredibly engrossing . . . Torrey Peters brings her signature wit and heart to get past the labels and into the core of how we all negotiate the ways we want to be seen.”—NPR

“Precise, original, funny and fearless.”—Shortlist

“Electrifying.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Stag Dance further establishes [Peters] as an essential voice in queer literature.”—AV Club

“Peters seems to delight in complicating liberal identity politics, refusing ever to sanitise her work or narrow her focus, and glorying in some truly rollicking prose.”—The Guardian

“The stories in Stag Dance are potent and surprising and take no prisoners. How exquisitely Peters writes about the way we move toward ourselves—with the clarity of desire and the agony of resistance.”—Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

“This is what I want from fiction. It starts at a place of real vulnerability, goes all the way down its own rabbit hole, and ends up potent and strange.”—Imogen Binnie, author of Nevada