Otter Lieffe is a working class, femme, trans woman and the author of two trans
feminist novels—Margins and Murmurations and Conserve and Control. Most recently, her short
story ‘Synergy’ was published in ‘Our Entangled Future’ an anthology on social change and the
climate crisis.

A grassroots community organiser for over two decades, Otter has worked and organised in
Europe, the Middle-East and Latin America with a particular focus on the intersection of gender,
queerness and environmental struggles.

Since publishing her first novel in 2017, Otter has been building networks to counter the systemic
oppressions faced by working-class trans women. In 2018, she helped establish Books Beyond Bars,
a trans/LGBTQIA prisoner support group in the UK and in 2019 she launched her new organisation,
Trans Feminism International organising to meet the material needs of trans women.