Joker's Wild "I had always wanted to meet a real writer, but none of them would ever hang out with me because of my overbite," jokes transgender satirist Charlie Anders about the motivation behind her critically acclaimed, San Francisco spoken-word variety show, Writers With Drinks. "OK, I did occasionally wind up with my teeth in their lapels. But really, it's just a sign of respect."
In addition to organizing the highly praised literary event, Anders (charlieanders.com) is a prolific writer, authoring the 2002 non-fiction how-to guide The Lazy Crossdresser, and the 2006 Lambda award-winning novel Choir Boy, a genderqueer action-adventure novel about religion. Her work is represented in nearly a dozen anthologies including Pills Chills Thrills & Heartache, Pinned Down By Pronouns and The
Anti-Capitalism Reader.
