Trina Sotira'sIn Her Skin: Growing Up Trans  made international reading lists for books on transgender teens. She teaches Creative Writing and Composition courses at College of DuPage. With Michelle Duster, Sotira edited and contributed to Shifts: An Anthology of Women's Growth Through Change, a 2015 USA Best Book Award Finalist and 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist for Women's Issues.

"If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values,
we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities,
and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric,
one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place."
-Margaret Mead 

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” 
— Maya Angelou

Trina Sotira

Writer, Editor, Assistant Professor

"'There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex,' Attorney General Loretta Lynch said" (qtd. in Grinberg).