Carol Guess

Guess attended Columbia University, majoring in English while studying ballet. She later earned graduate degrees in Creative Writing and English from Indiana University.[1] Currently Professor of English at Western Washington University,[2] she lives in Bellingham, WA. Guess identifies as queer and was a member of the Lesbian Avengers in the 1990s.[2] Her books Homeschooling, Femme's Dictionary, and Gaslight were nominated for Lambda Literary Awards. Switch was a finalist for the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award in 1999.[3] In 2014 she was awarded the Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement by the Philolexian Society of Columbia University.[4]

• Infodemic, Black Lawrence Press, 2024.
• Sleep Tight Satellite, Tupelo Press, October 2023.
• Book of Non (co-written with Rochelle Hurt), Broadstone Books, July 2023.
• Girl Zoo (co-written with Aimee Parkison), FC2, 2019.
• True Ash (co-written with Elizabeth J. Colen), Black Lawrence Press, August 2018.
• Instructions for Staging (co-written with Kristina Marie Darling), Broadstone Books, 2017.
• Human-Ghost Hybrid Project (co-written with Daniela Olszewska), Black Lawrence Press, 2017.
• The Reckless Remainder (co-written with Kelly Magee), Noctuary Press, 2016.
• Your Sick (co-written with Elizabeth J. Colen and Kelly Magee), Jellyfish Highway Press, 2016.
• With Animal (co-written with Kelly Magee), Black Lawrence Press, 2015.
• How to Feel Confident with Your Special Talents (co-written with Daniela Olszewska), Black Lawrence Press, 2014.
• X Marks The Dress: A Registry (co-written with Kristina Marie Darling), Gold Wake Press, 2013.
• F IN (Noctuary Press, 2013)
• Index Of Placebo Effects (Matter Press, 2012)
• Doll Studies: Forensics (Black Lawrence Press, 2012)
• Darling Endangered (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2011)
• My Father In Water (Shearsman Books, 2011)
• Homeschooling (PS Publishing, 2010)
• Love Is A Map I Must Not Set On Fire (VRZHU Press, 2009)
• Tinderbox Lawn (Rose Metal Press, 2008)
• Femme's Dictionary (Calyx Books, 2004)
• Gaslight (Odd Girls Press, 2001)
• Switch (Calyx Books, 1998)
• Seeing Dell (Cleis Press, 1996)

• Author's blog
• Video of reading at wikiHow headquarters, July 2014
• Review of Tinderbox Lawn
• Review of Doll Studies: Forensics
• Review of Doll Studies: Forensics
• Review of Darling Endangered
• Review of F IN
• Review of X Marks The Dress: A Registry