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Kes Otter Lieffe is a writer, ecologist, facilitator and community organiser currently based near Berlin. She is the author of a trilogy of queer speculative fiction novels, several short stories, and a colouring book series on queer ecology. Kes writes from a working-class, chronically ill, transfeminine perspective.

Kes is available for interviews, podcast interviews, speaking events, book readings and workshop facilitation.

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Kes Otter Lieffe, Author of utopian trans speculative fiction novels, a facilitator and community organiser currently based in Berlin. [Kes standing and reading. Behind her is a brick wall and people listening.]

Kes is the author of a trilogy of queer speculative fiction novels and several short stories.
Her first short story was published in Our Entangled Future an anthology on social change and the climate crisis.
Her short story Soft was published in the queer resilience anthology, Glitter + Ashes.

Kes writes articles about class, gender and queerness. Her article, Surviving Utopia was published on Strange Horizons. Kes is also the author of the colouring zines, Queer Animals and Queer Plants (currently being featured in the Swiss Natural History Museum) and an upcoming, full-sized colouring book.

Over the last several years, Kes has spoken as a panelist, keynote speaker and facilitator in various contexts, from protest camps to university institutions, from s3x worker conferences to Al Jazeera.
Since 2017, Kes has given over a hundred book readings from her trilogy of novels.

Kes regularly gives interviews for local radio stations, podcasts and blogs.

Kes writes articles on subjects such as precarity, queer and trans liberation, utopian literature and class. Her article, Surviving Utopia was recently published by speculative fiction magazine, Strange Horizons.

A grassroots community organiser for over two decades, Kes has worked and organised in Europe, the Middle-East and Latin America. Her work focuses particularly on the intersections of class, queerness and environmental struggles.