Mx. Rogers (pronounced MIX Rogers) returns to school following their gender reassignment with a short tale from the ocean that they've written to help explain their new identity to their students.
Dean Gessie is an author and poet who has won dozens of international awards and prizes. Among other honors, Dean won the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award in England, the Allingham Arts Festival Poetry Competition in Ireland, the Samuel Washington Allen Poetry Prize in Massachusetts, the COP26 Poetry Competition in Scotland, the UN-aligned Poetry Contest in Finland, a Creators of Justice Literary Award [Fiction Category] from the International Human Rights Art Festival in New York and the Indigo Open Poetry Prize in England. Also in England, he was one of twenty international poets included in the Poetry Archive NOW! World View 2022 Video Anthology. Elsewhere, Dean won the Frank O'Hara Poetry Prize in Massachusetts, the Enizagam Poetry Contest in California, the Ageless Authors Poetry Contest in Texas, the Spoon River Review Editors' Prize in Illinois and the Southern Shakespeare Company Sonnet Contest in Florida. In addition, Dean was included twice in The 64 Best Poets by Black Mountain Press in North Carolina and his collection of award-winning short stories - called Anthropocene - won an Eyelands Book Award in Greece, the Uncollected Press Prize in Maryland and the Seven Hills Literary Contest in Florida. Dean's latest release - goat song with Uncollected Press - also won the Seven Hills Literary Contest for best international poetry collection since 2020.
