Gwen Aube is a working-class writer living in Montreal, Quebec. Her work has appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review, The New Orleans Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Expat Press, and Room Magazine. She is a 2025 Artist-in-Residence with the Ontario Heritage Council, a Kevin Killian scholarship recipient for the Jack Kerouac School Summer Writing Program, and was a finalist for the PEN Canada New Voices award. She is the author of the chapbook Pulp Necrosis (above/ground press, 2025).

"Bold and brazen and full of heart and downright hilarious at times. It rolls like a memory, harkening the greats of street poetry. Gwen is my favourite kind of poet, the kind with clear eyes that truly see other humans, renders them beautiful."
--katherena vermette, author of procession

"Canny, understated, moving."
--PEN Canada New Voices jury citation

"Raw, beautiful, and unapologetically trans ... a collection that any working class person will see themselves reflected in."
--Lillie Reimer, Literati Bookstore (Ann Arbor, MI)

"Will make you cackle so heinously your roommate asks what you are choking on."
--South Broadway Press

"Delightfully rendered."
--Autostraddle

"Searing in every way."
--fifth wheel press

"In shelters, trainyards, & skeezy doctor's waiting rooms, Aube's poems sing and slang the tattered glories of tranny life and how we live it."
--imogen smith, author of stemmy things

"Equal parts funny and furious, private and protective, Gwen Aube's writing pushes our battered language right to its ecstatic, aesthetic edge ... Missed Connections with Tall Girls is serious, necessary work, but don't expect solemnity; Aube's book is a roaring good time."
--Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting and Animal Person

"Excellent characters ... rich and adventurous ... a great read."
--The Needle

"WOW! Gwen Aube makes a speedway for poems, racing up your neck and into the mouth of your surprised, opening face! You think you know what's coming next? NO! HAHA! There is something incredible waiting for you here."
--CA Conrad, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return

Publisher: Littlepuss Press

Pub date: 2026-04-07

Length: 104 pages