Hello! I’m Kes Otter Lieffe.
I’m the author of four speculative fiction novels including the Margins trilogy, several short stories, and a colouring book series. I write non-fiction on class and queer ecology. I regularly offer workshops, book readings and interviews. And I’ve recently started offering editing services.
I’m an ecologist and I’ve been involved in grassroots community struggles for over twenty years. My work focuses on the intersections of class, queerness and environmental defence as well as growing radical alternatives to the oppressions of capitalism.
I write and organise from a working-class, chronically ill, transfeminine perspective.
To find out what I’ve been working on recently, you can read my annual report for 2024
Articles
I’ve started releasing new articles on the subjects closest to my heart – queer ecology, class, social movements and nature connection. I’ll release a new article on the first of each month.
Queering Nature
This year I had the honour of consulting for a queer tour at the Berlin Natural History Museum. You can follow the digital tour (which I narrated in the English version) from home or book in-person guided tours in German and English.
Home is a verb
My new novel explores burnout and despair, collective collapse and recovery. In a shifting world, marginalised characters must face their traumas and embrace change. In their search for healing, they are brought together, finding home in the least expected of places.
Newsletter ✏️
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You’ll also receive a welcome gift 🩷
Speculative Fiction
In my futuristic stories, marginalised characters take centre stage in powerful resistance movements. Everything is at stake and so much is possible.
Queer Ecology
I’m an ecologist and the author of the Queer Animals and Plants series.
I give workshops and write articles on the subject.
Deutsch
Hier findest du der deutschsprachige Ecke meiner Website mit Übersetzungen meiner Texte und eine Podcast-folge auf Deutsch
I have a media page and bio and you can contact me here.
I write a monthly newsletter about my writing and activism work.
If you find value in my work and want to help me keep creating, there are lots of ways to support me.
Creating becomes ever harder to live from and as a result there are fewer working-class authors each year.
I love my work. I want to continue to raise money for work that is literally part of a better world. I want to amplify marginalised voices, run workshops and create sustainable solidarity initiatives that meet people’s material needs. And I want to keep writing!
If you’ve ever benefited from my work and would like to support me, here is a list of fourteen ideas, including two minute actions that don’t cost anything. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me on this journey since 2016. You are all amazing.