By the time she sat down to write her first novel, in the summer of 2016, she was entertaining a previously unthinkable fantasy: a family, maybe kids. It was also the most insecure I’ve been in my life.” The relationship didn’t last (Peters’s marriage collapsed too), and after a year, the trophy-wife fantasy fizzled out. She bought a wardrobe of sundresses and heels a trip to the grocery store entailed two hours of makeup. The tech guy was married, but Peters decided to move to Seattle to become his mistress. It all seems ridiculous to me now, but at the time I was dead serious.” “I wanted to take care of a man and have a dog we walked together.
“I wanted to be a trophy wife,” she recalled. By the end of that visit, she had settled on a new vision of her future. She met a wealthy tech guy on Facebook a while back who wanted to fly her out to Seattle for a long weekend.
from the University of Iowa’s writing workshop, but she didn’t want to be a writer anymore, either. She was 32 years old, in an open marriage, and in the midst of a fellowship program in comparative literature at Dartmouth when she realized she no longer wanted to be a professor. Listen to Torrey Peters In Conversation with Caitlin Benedict now: ĭisclaimer: The views, opinions and beliefs expressed in this podcast are solely those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions and beliefs of New Writing South or Marlborough Productions, or their official policies.Around the time the novelist Torrey Peters transitioned, she was spending more and more time talking to strangers on the internet. Grace Lavery on Detransition, Baby in the Guardian “Witty, elegant and rigorously plotted”…. For the past few years, Torrey has been part of a trans literary movement based on trans people sharing their work among each other without barriers. Torrey rides a pink motorcycle and splits her time between Brooklyn and an off-grid cabin in Vermont. She also holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. Torrey Peters is the author of the novel Detransition, Baby, which was published by One World/Random House in January of 2021, as well as the novellas Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker.
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