Trisha Low is a genre-defying writer whose work explores identity, girlhood, performance, and power. Her hybrid texts blur poetry, theory, and memoir.

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She is the author of two books—The Compleat Purge (Kenning Editions, 2013) and Socialist Realism (Emily Books, 2019), which won the 2019 Believer Book Award in Nonfiction and the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Frieze, the SFMOMA’s Open Space, The Believer, and Art in America. She is an occasional contributor at tor.com and a member of the Light Field film collective, curating experimental film on celluloid. She serves as editor-at-large at Nightboat Books. She was born in New York, raised in Singapore, and lives in the East Bay of California.