A.E. Osworth is a transgender novelist with a decade of experience writing creative nonfiction for internet audiences. Their first book, WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT (Grand Central Publishing 2021) was long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. Their essays have been featured on Quartz, Mashable, drDoctor, and Autostraddle, among others. They are currently a columnist for Catapult, where they write Scaring Children, about children’s horror from the nineties and early aughts through the lens of a queer adulthood.