Getting paid to go back into the closet was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever done—but it taught me how to define my body on my own terms
Sydney Hegele
Sydney Hegele (formerly Sydney Warner Brooman) is a queer fiction author, poet and essayist from small town Southern Ontario. They are the author of The Pump (Invisible Publishing 2021), which won the 2022 ReLit Literary Award for Short Fiction and was a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. Their poetry chapbook The Last Thing I Will See Before I Die is forthcoming from 845 Press in 2022. They are on faculty at the Lighthouse Writer's Workshop in Denver, CO, where they teach craft workshops for both the adult and youth programs. They live with their husband and French Bulldog on Treaty 13 Land (Toronto, Canada).