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Hazel Jane Plante is a librarian, musician, cat photographer, coastal creature, and writer.
Her debut novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) (Metonymy Press, 2019) received a Lambda Literary award and was a finalist for both a Publishing Triangle Award and a BC and Yukon Book Prize. Her second novel, Any Other City, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2023.
She has also released two works that widen the world of Any Other City: Miscellaneous Kisses (ӕmbidextrous әditions, 2021), which is about a film directed by the character Sadie Tang, and Songs of Love, Death, and Pleasure (Publication Studio Vancouver, 2023), a songbook that includes lyrics written by the novel’s narrator, Tracy St. Cyr.
Hazel releases solo music under the name lo-fi lioness, writes songs and plays guitar for Certain Women, maintains a newsletter (Whatever Happened to Hazel Jane?), and helmed the podcast t4t, which was about writing while trans.
She lives with her gorgeous cat, Gus, on the unceded, ancestral, and current territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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A shorter version:
Hazel Jane Plante is a librarian, musician, coastal creature, and writer. Her debut novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) (Metonymy Press, 2019) received a Lambda Literary award and was a finalist for both a Publishing Triangle Award and a BC and Yukon Book Prize. Her second novel, Any Other City, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in April 2023. She lives with her gorgeous cat, Gus, on the unceded, ancestral, and current territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.