WPS Author Interview Day 28: Iris Retzlaff
Welcome to day 28 of the Wonderland Pride Spotlight author interviews! Today I am interviewing Iris Retzlaff. To see all of the spotlight posts created by my lovely community, head over to the hashtag #wonderlandpridespotlight over on Instagram!
Iris's Books
The Interview
1. Are you LGBTQ+? If so, how?
"Yes, I'm nonbinary (she/they) pan aroacespec"
2. What books of yours have LGBTQ+ representation, and what rep do they have?
"All of them. The Happily Maybe After trilogy has a clueless demi MC and his nonbinary princely person. Moon's Lament is set in a queernorm world, with a gay and a bi MC, most of the side characters are queer as well."
3. Why do you think LGBTQ+ rep in books is important?
"Literature is a mirror of our culture, but can also shape it. By building knowledge and understanding, but most importantly empathy, and by illustrating possibility, and normalisation (especially SFF lit)"
4. What got you into writing?
"Quite simple: the many stories in my head. There has never not been a time when I didn't spin a tale in one form or another."
5. Who is a queer figure you look up to?
"There isn't anyone specific. I have respect for everyone who ever fought and is still fighting to be who they are and love who they love, with all the rights that everyone else has and should have."
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