"[A] thoughtful portrait of one teenager’s incremental progress toward greater self-knowledge and acceptance."

-Publishers Weekly Review of

 In Her Skin: Growing Up Trans

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.

Trina Sotira

Writer, Editor, Assistant Professor

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

"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 

"'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).