Telling the Story of Gender Transition through Poetry in New Finishing Line Press Book

Annette Langlois Grunseth’s Becoming Trans-Parent: One Family’s Journey of Gender Transition shares one parent’s experience of an adult child transitioning from son to daughter.

Through narrative poetry, information is woven around one family’s story with the hope to provide awareness about the struggle of gender identity. Included in the book is a collection of poems about changing avatars, using bathrooms, selecting clothing, grieving, passing as a woman, job discrimination, unique health issues, what happens to marriage and family, along with the joy that comes from seeing an adult child transition into living an authentic life.

Grunseth is a poet and freelance writer who has a BA in Communications from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a lifetime member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Her poems have appeared in Wisconsin Academy Review, Midwest Prairie Review, Soundings: Door County in Poetry, The Poeming Pigeons, The Ariel Anthology and other publications. She is retired from a career in Marketing and Public Relations and lives in Green Bay.

Becoming Trans-parent can be preordered from Finishing Line Press at finishinglinepress.com. The book will be in print this summer.