Crystal Odelle

Crystal Odelle (they/she) comes to the A&S Academic and Administrative Cluster with experience in creative writing, editing, and nonprofit management. Crystal is a queer storyteller and author of Trans Studies. Their stories have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Foglifter, Split Lip Magazine, smoke and mold, Apogee, Strange Horizons, and elsewhere. Crystal was a Lambda Literary fellow and Tin House Scholar, nominated for Best of the Net, and anthologized in We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction. Her writing and performances trouble the divide between fiction and reality toward liberation.

As an Academic and Administrative Cluster Supervisor, Crystal supports:  

• African & African American Studies
• Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies