Genevieve Hudson is the author of Boys of Alabama, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and shortlisted for the Stonewall Book Award. Her other books include the Lambda Literary Award finalist Pretend We Live Here and the micro-memoir A Little in Love with Everyone. Her second novel, Headfirst, is forthcoming with Roxane Gay Books in 2027.

Genevieve’s work has appeared in Elle, Oprah Magazine, McSweeney’s, BOMB, Bookforum, Lit Hub, and Electric Literature, and was featured in Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing. She was the recipient of a Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Amsterdam and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Ucross Foundation, Caldera Arts, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and Vermont Studio Center. Genevieve lives in Portland, Oregon, with her wife and two dogs and also works in advertising. She is learning to draw and writing about it at studiowork.substack.com.

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