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Hazel Jane Plante is the author of two novels: Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) (Metonymy Press, 2019) and Any Other City (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023).
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Hazel Jane Plante is a coastal creature, musician, and writer. Her debut novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) (Metonymy Press, 2019) received a Lambda Literary award, and her second novel Any Other City (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023) is a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She lives on the unceded, ancestral, and current territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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Hazel Jane Plante is a queer trans woman, a musician, a coastal creature, and a writer. Her debut novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian) (Metonymy Press, 2019) received a Lambda Literary award and was a finalist for both a Publishing Triangle Award and a BC and Yukon Book Prize. Her second novel, Any Other City (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023), is a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
She has also released Miscellaneous Kisses (ӕmbidextrous әditions, 2021), a dreamy novella about an imaginary film, and Songs of Love, Death, and Pleasure (Publication Studio Vancouver, 2023), which includes lyrics from lo-fi lioness (a solo music project), Certain Women (her band), and her novel Any Other City.
Hazel has an irregular newsletter called Whatever Happened to Hazel Jane? and she used to helm the podcast t4t, which was about writing while trans.
She lives with her gorgeous and skittish cat, Gus, on the unceded, ancestral, and current territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.