Avery Cassell is a queer elder, writer, poet, cartoonist, sewist, and artist. Raised in Iran, they live in a haunted pink Victorian house in Western Massachusetts with their two rescue cats. They have too many projects.
Their books include Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII (2018); Behrouz Gets Lucky: A Novel (2026), The Solstice Gift (2019), The Butch Lesbians of the '20s, '30s, and '40s Coloring Book (2017), The Butch Lesbians of the '50s, '60s, and '70s Coloring Book (2018), and the Masculinities Coloring Book: Boi Bulldagger Butch Masc MOC Soft Butch Stud Tomboy Transmasc Coloring Book (2024.)
Their queer, kinky smut is included in More Five Minute Erotica: 35 Tales of Sex and Seduction, “The Kissing Booth” (2007); Sex Still Spoken Here: An Anthology, “The Train Trip” (2014); Best Lesbian Erotica 2015, “Behrouz Gets Lucky” (2015); Unspeakably Erotic: Lesbian Kink, “Blue Plate Special: Your Boot on my Cunt”; Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 4, “Pinked” (2019); and Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year, Volume 7, “The Persian Girl” (2022).
Their awards include Resistance: The LGBT Fight Against Fascism in WWII, Lambda Finalist and The Solstice Gift: Behrouz and Lucky on the Longest Night, the National Leather Association 2020 Pauline Reage Novel Award.