Cat Fitzpatrick is the Editrix at LittlePuss Press, the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University—Newark. She is the author of a collection of poems, Glamourpuss (Topside Press, 2016) and co-edited the anthology Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction & Fantasy from Transgender Writers, which won the ALA Stonewall Award for Literature. The Call-Out is her first novel.