San Francisco, CA

Laura Albert’s latest book, a memoir of her life, is now being readied for publication. She has already won international acclaim for her fiction: Writing as JT LeRoy, she is the author of the best-selling novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things – both now released also as audiobooks – and the novella Harold’s End. She is the subject of Jeff Feuerzeig’s feature documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story and Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film The Ballad of JT LeRoy. She has written for The New York Times, The Forward, The London Times, Spin, Man About Town, Vogue, Film Comment, Interview, L’Équipe Sport&Style, Filmmaker, I-D, and others. A writer for the HBO series “Deadwood,” she also wrote the original script for Gus Van Sant’s Elephant and was the film’s Associate Producer. She has written the short films Radiance for Drew Lightfoot and ContentMode, and Dreams of Levitation and Warfare of Pageantry for Sharif Hamza and Nowness. She has spoken extensively and lectured about gender-variance and transgender issues for such sources as BOMB Magazine, Ireland’s Mindfield Literary Stage, dot429, the Utah Valley University Transgression Symposium, and others. She also serves as a board member of the Independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco.