Torrey Peters

Torrey Peters is an American author. Her debut novel, "Detransition, Baby", is one of the first written by a trans woman to be issued by the big-five publishing houses, Penguin Random House, and has received mainstream and critical success. The novel has been nominated for the prestigious 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction. 
Early life and education.
Peters grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Iowa with an MFA and from Dartmouth College with an MA in Comparative Literature.
Work.
Peters’s first two self-published novellas, "The Masker" and "Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones", were published online in 2016 and reviewed by writer Harron Walker for "them". "The Masker" is about a sissy as they contemplate transitioning from male to female. Set in a dystopian future where bioterrorism has destroyed the body's ability to produce sex hormones, "Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones" follows "Patient Zero" and her cat-and-mouse relationship with Lexi, a working-class, gun-obsessed trans girl. "Glamour Boutique", Peters's third novella, explores a casual Craigslist encounter at a crossdressers’ boutique store.
She has written reviews for a breadth of transgender and gender non-conforming authors, such as Janet Mock, Akwaeke Emezi, and Casey Plett, who have published books through Arsenal Pulp Press, Metonymy, and Topside Press.
"Detransition, Baby".
Peters' debut novel, "Detransition, Baby", published by Penguin Random House in 2021, has been met with critical success and praise crafting a tender exploration of gender, parenthood, and love. The humorous, pulpy novel follows Reese, a trans woman longing to be a mother by sleeping with married men; Ames, previously Amy; and Katrina, a Chinese Jewish woman who is pregnant with Ames’s child. Ames suggests that Katrina let Reese assist in raising the baby with them, because he will be unable to fully be present as a “father.” 
Peters reflected that the novel is written in the genre of a soap opera and that the novel's characters talk "how I talk with my friends."
The dedication for "Detransition, Baby" is to divorced cis women, on the basis that divorced cis women must start over at a point in adulthood when they are supposed to be established, not dissimilar to trans women.
"Detransition, Baby" has been nominated for the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction making her the first trans woman nominated for the prestigious U.K. literary award. In early 2021, it was announced that the book has been slated for television series adaptation. Grey’s Anatomy writer-producers Joan Rater and Tony Phelan are the showrunners for the drama/comedy television adaptation Peters's debut novel.