Avi Ben-Zeev is a London-based gay trans man, high school failure, and Yale PhD. As a writer, psychologist, and immigrant, he explores the challenges and freedoms of journeying toward belonging and home. Avi’s stories won the 2024 London Independent Story Prize (LISP) and the UK’s first transgender writing competition. He was shortlisted and highly commended by the 2023 Oxford Flash Fiction Prize, and his co-edited anthology, Trans Homo, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Avi’s literary memoir, Calling My Deadname Home, was published by Muswell Press and longlisted for the 2025 Polari Literary Prize. Find out more at www.avibenzeev.com.