Cris Beam

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<B>Cris Beam</B> is the author of <I>Transparent</I>, a Stonewall Honor Book and Lambda Literary Award winner.<I></I>She has an MFA in writing from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia, New York University, and The New School. <I>I Am J</I> is her debut novel. While living in LA, Cris volunteered at Eagles, a high school for gay and transgender kids. During the 2.5 years Cris taught there, she became deeply involved with a complex but marginalized tribe of transgender teens who had nowhere to go but the streets, one of whom became her foster daughter.