A Transgender Woman

A Transgender Woman is a book of 150 poems about being a transgender woman: her dress, sexuality, her encounters with other people. It explores the challenges, joys, and exhilarations of transitioning. It is challenging, unabashed, and bold, capturing the essence of one transgender woman's identity. Sophia Marshall is a perceptual poet, characterized by her treatment of the senses. She has been compared to e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, and Sappho. She is a credentialed journalist and music critic, as well as a poet, with credits in several jazz journals and other music publications, and she has published letters on politics in The Boston Phoenix. She has a blog, The Flash Boston (theflashboston.com), covering Boston music and culture. She is a transgender woman. She lives in Boston.