Letters from a Transexual Vampire

By: Myles S. Allan

Letters from a Transexual Vampire chronicles the life of a young transgender poet who moves through the world like a creature of dusk, half in shadow and half in revelation. Blending blue-collar realism with gothic imagination, these poems explore survival, gender, and the kinds of hunger that come from being both seen and unseen. From navigating love and loss as a beast existing outside of convention, to growing up with the weight of an uneasy upbringing, Letters from a Transexual Vampire asks what we lose when we surrender to domesticity.

This is split into four haunting parts—bloodshed, bloodlines, bloodlust, and bloodborne. Each era of realization takes the reader through a journey of radical reflection and bittersweet acceptance of the things we cannot change. Tender and biting, this collection offers a chorus of love letters, confessions, and late-night dispatches from a life lived on the edge of myth and everyday struggle.