Charlie Lou Evans
…is engaged in a eternal battle with a six foot rainbow snake that lives in his pants. But when he's not doing that, he writes poetry.
He grew up in a small town in New Jersey, majored in multimedia journalism and creative writing at Virginia Tech, spent two consecutive summers thru-hiking the Appalachian and Pacific Crest Trail and now lives in Bellingham, Washington.
Charlie placed second in the 2025 Salish Sea Poetry Slam. His first poetry chapbook, Gay Sex, will be released by Sibling Rivalry Press in June 2026. The chapbook traces his journey from sexual abuse to queer liberation.
He hopes to publish his first full length of poetry, The Quarter Life Crisis of an American Transsexual in the next two years. Once it is published, he plans to bike across the country on a Trans Continental Bike Tour Book Launch, and perform his poetry at queer cities and towns along the way. He will interview trans people across the states and compile a book of portraits and interviews that form an androgynous patchwork quilt of the many different (and similar) ways to be queer across America.
At a time when the current administration is trying to erase trans people, he is determined to show the beauty of queer folx in our creativity, community and resilience. Trans people have always existed, and will continue to exist!
Every copy of Gay Sex and unhinged sticker sold helps to pay off his top surgery and fund this upcoming journey.
His dream is to find connection in queer people all across the country, and to celebrate our communal queer strength. He hopes that when he shares his poetry, you can see yourself in it or understand and celebrate your trans friends.
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Read Charlie’s debut poetry chapbook, Gay Sex, or buy a sticker!
All funds go towards paying off top surgery costs.
"I knew Charlie when he was just a gleam, just a whisper in a body on the way to becoming a home. I’ve never known someone more hopeful or resilient, or more likely to find humor at the core of cruelty and darkness. His poems reflected this, they were large and rambling and generous, and always, no matter their subject, conveyed the force and intention of embrace. While still the case, the poems in Gay Sex are even more deeply celebratory, joyous, and loving, for Charlie is no longer unhoused in his own body. Charlie is now Charlie, and Charlie is now home.”
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