Filipino-American Author, Journalist & Artist; Author of "Fairest"; Founding Executive Editor of them.; MFA Writing Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College

Ithaca, NY, USA
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Meredith Talusan Biography

Meredith Talusan is a Filipino-American author, journalist, and artist whose work encompasses memoir, fiction, visual art, and performance. Talusan's career spans the intersection of writing, visual art, science, and performance, with a primary focus on book authorship and journalism. After moving to Manila at age 7, Talusan began acting in a popular sitcom, which led to an acting career through early adolescence. An academic scholarship to Harvard introduced Talusan to circles of privilege, where she navigated issues of race, class, and sexuality, ultimately emerging as an artist and activist exploring the boundaries of gender.

Talusan is the author of the memoir "Fairest," published by Viking/Penguin Random House, which was a Freund Prize winner and Lambda Literary Award finalist. The book was recognized as a best book of the year by O: The Oprah Magazine, Marie-Claire, Electric Literature, and Library Journal, and was selected for both the Teen Vogue and LitHub Book Clubs. "Fairest" details Talusan's early life as a boy with albinism in a rural Filipino family and the journey toward becoming a writer and gender-nonconforming transfeminine American. The memoir examines themes of race, gender, immigrant experience, and intersectionality.

As a journalist, Talusan is the founding executive editor of them., Condé Nast's LGBTQ+ digital platform. Talusan's writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Nation, WIRED, SELF, and Condé Nast Traveler, among other publications, and she has contributed to several essay collections, including the New York Times bestselling anthology "Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture."

Talusan has received a Creative Capital Award and a Pushcart Prize nomination for fiction, with stories published in Guernica, Boston Review, Epoch, The Rumpus, Grand, Catapult, and BLR. Additional honors include awards from GLAAD, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Talusan has held the Poynter Fellowship at Yale and the Marsha P. Johnson Fellowship at the Jack Jones Writers Retreat. At MacDowell, Talusan began the first draft of the novel "The Shadow Worker," which received a Creative Capital Award, and edited stories for the collection-in-progress, "Girl Con." Talusan teaches in the MFA Writing Program at Sarah Lawrence College.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/13/2026.

Meredith Talusan Videos

Racial Justice Reads:  Kiese Laymon, Jaquira Díaz, Meredith Talusan

Racial Justice Reads: Kiese Laymon, Jaquira Díaz, Meredith Talusan

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First Time I Saw Me: Trans Voices | Meredith Talusan | Netflix + GLAAD

First Time I Saw Me: Trans Voices | Meredith Talusan | Netflix + GLAAD

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