Cris Beam
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Cris Beam

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Cris Beam's most recent book is To The End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). Her first book was Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers (Harcourt, 2007) which won a Lambda Literary Award and was a Stonewall Honor Book. Her young adult novel, I am J, was released by Little, Brown in March 2011, and was named a Kirkus Best Book and Library Guild Selection of 2011, and is the first book with a transgender character to be placed on the state of California's recommended reading list for public high schools. Her short memoir, Mother, Stranger was published by The Atavist in 2012 and quickly reached the top ten on Kindle Singles. Cris teaches creative writing at Columbia University, New York University, and Bayview Women's Correctional Facility. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia and lives in New York City. She's currently working on a novel.
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The Best Fiction Podcasts for Listeners Who Love a Good Story

You can’t beat a good story. Luckily, humans are great at storytelling, and the best fiction podcasts are all the proof that the modern listener requires. Get the popcorn ready; it’s storytime.

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    • I Feel You

    • The Surprising Power of Extreme Empathy
    • Written by: Cris Beam
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2019-03-12
    • Language: English
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    • To the End of June

    • The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
    • Written by: Cris Beam
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-20
    • Language: English
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