The Dinner Party & Other Writings

“Whether she’s narrating an Ovidian verse drama, composing a sonnet sequence, or retelling Plato’s Symposium in perfectly iambic envelope quatrains, Cat Fitzpatrick is a total genius at making old modes accommodate new realities. I’m so moved by this virtuosic collection of long poems about queer family-making, freaky friendship, erotic love, and gender transition. The Dinner Party is brilliant, hot, uproarious, and gay as hell: at once a high-wire camp performance and an aching tribute to the sounds and shapes of our language.”-Maggie Millner, author of Couplets: A Love Story“Cat Fitzpatrick’s The Dinner Party celebrates love, community, domesticity and their manifold humiliations; grieves the loss inherent in love, monitors friends’ clashes with the rapt gaze of a connoisseur, airs intimacy’s fecal folds, and comes down soundly each time on the side of more: “we must refuse/to not be charmed.” How fathom the vasts of the poet’s perversity? She rhymes because she likes it. I like it too.”-Sophia Dahlin, author of Glove Money

Cat Fitzpatrick’s debut novel, The Call-Out (Seven Stories Press, 2022), was awarded the 2023 Lambda Award for Transgender Fiction. She is the author of the poetry collection Glamour-puss (Topside Press, 2016), and the co-editor of the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere- Science Fiction & Fantasy from Transgender Writers, which won the ALA Stonewall Award for Literature. Fitzpatrick is the first trans woman Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Rutgers University-Newark, and she also serves as the Editrix at LittlePuss Press. The Dinner Party (Seven Stories Press, 2026) is her second novel in verse.

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