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Krys Malcolm Belc

Krys Malcolm Belc is the author of the memoir The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood (Counterpoint Press, 2021) and the flash nonfiction chapbook In Transit (The Cupboard Pamphlet, 2018). His essays about queer and trans family life have been featured in Granta, Guernica, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Belc is the memoir editor of Split Lip Magazine. He is the 2023–25 Edelstein-Keller Writer in Residence at the University of Minnesota. He considers Kensington, Philadelphia, home.

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

I Made Chicken Soup

By Krys Malcolm Belc

January 2. I am not allowed into the surgical center where the procedure will happen. I am to remain in the parking lot — on the premises, the nurse told Anna on […]