€œWhatever his subject matter, Killian maintains full authority€"offering up a homoerotic interpretation of Flannery O€Connor€s A Good Man Is Hard to Find and a brilliant imagined history of Hank Williams. Here, under the author€s careful control and easygoing charisma, everything seems up for grabs, and almost anything seems possible.€€"Time Out New York

Impossible Princess is the third collection of gay short fiction by PEN Award€“winning San Francisco€“based author Kevin Killian. A member of the €œnew narrative€ circle including Dennis Cooper and Kathy Acker, Killian is a master short story writer, crafting campy and edgy tales that explore the humor and darkness of desire. A former director of Small Press Traffic and a co-editor of Mirage/Periodical, Killian co-wrote Jack Spicer€s biography, Poet Be Like God, and co-edited three Spicer books, including My Vocabulary Did This To Me: Collected Poems. His latest book, Action Kylie, is a collection of poems devoted to Kylie Minogue.