Letters from a Transexual Vampire, by Myles S. Allan

Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Letters from a Transexual Vampire chronicles the life of a young transgender poet who moves through the world like a creature of dusk, half in shadow and half in revelation. Blending blue-collar realism with gothic imagination, these poems explore survival, gender, and the kinds of hunger that come from being both seen and unseen. From navigating love and loss as a beast existing outside of convention, to growing up with the weight of an uneasy upbringing, Letters from a Transexual Vampire asks what we lose when we surrender to domesticity. This is split into four haunting parts—bloodshed, bloodlines, bloodlust, and bloodborne. Each era of realization takes the reader through a journey of radical reflection and bittersweet acceptance of the things we cannot change. Tender and biting, this collection offers a chorus of love letters, confessions, and late-night dispatches from a life lived on the edge of myth and everyday struggle. Myles S. Allan is a trans cowboy, writer, and emerging poet (yes, in that order) currently living in southern Connecticut. His work has been published in Millennial Pulp, hotpoet’s Equinox, and Columbia College Chicago’s Allium. He is currently working on a debut poetry manuscript and his first novel. In his free time, you can find him playing tabletop RPGs or collecting vintage Oscar Wilde editions.