Elizabeth Craven, Christina Holzhauser and B. Andrew Plant will discuss their essays in Crooked Letter i, a collection of first-person nonfiction narratives that reflect the distinct “coming out” experiences of a complex cross-section of gay, lesbian, and transgendered Southerners from all walks of life and at different stages in their lives. The experiences represented here pivot around a central theme—finding language to understand one’s identity, and discovering we were never the only ones.