CORÉRISC presents a public reading with author and scholar Addie Tsai from their new novel, Unwieldy Creatures on February 7, 2023. Unwieldy Creatures, a biracial queer, non-binary retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, follows the story of three beings who all navigate life from the margins: Plum, a queer biracial Chinese intern at one of the world’s top embryology labs, who runs away from home to openly be with her girlfriend only to be left on her own; Dr. Frank, a queer biracial Indonesian scientist who compromises everything she claims to love in the name of science and ambition when she sets out to procreate without sperm or egg; and Dr. Frank’s nonbinary creation, painstakingly brought into the world due to complications at birth that result from a cruel twist of revenge, only to be abandoned. Plum struggles to determine the limits of her own ambition when Dr. Frank offers her a chance to assist with her next project. How far will Plum go in the name of scientific advancement and what is she willing to risk?
Addie Tsai is a queer, nonbinary writer and artist of color who teaches Creative Writing at the College of William & Mary. Their young adult novel, Dear Twin, was released November 2019 via Metonymy Press. Their adult queer biracial Asian genderswapped retelling of Frankenstein, Unwieldy Creatures, was published in August 2022 by Jaded Ibis Press. They are a staff writer at Spectrum South, and Fiction co-Editor and editor of Features & Reviews at Anomaly, and they are the Founding Editor and Editor in Chief at just femme & dandy.