BUTCH GEOGRAPHY is the first full-length book by a poet whose award-winning chapbooks celebrating the fluidity of gender have challenged and thrilled readers, and whose powerful, eloquent performances have electrified live audiences across the United States. Kwame Dawes says, "Waite is a pathfinder, charting with disarming honesty, humor, pathos, and willful perplexity the uncertain terrain of gender in ways that shatter assumptions, unsettle easy presumptions, and yet, through the sheer grace of craft . . . open us to the beauty of our strange human enterprise."

Teaching Queer looks closely at student writing, transcripts of class discussions, and teaching practices in first-year writing courses to articulate queer theories of literacy and writing instruction, while also considering the embodied actuality of being a queer teacher. Rather than positioning queerness as connected only to queer texts or queer teachers/students (as much work on queer pedagogy has done since the 1990s), this book offers writing and teaching as already queer practices, and contends that the overlap between queer theory and composition presents new possibilities for...