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praise
“A funeral band plays as Jules Baffa leads a procession of loved ones through all the stages of queer grief in mourning their beloved B. And Then the Gray Heaven is a novel held together by shared loss: its subtlety, rage, and conspiratorial tenderness. Jules makes their way to and through museums, in order to mix B’s ashes with the dust of institutions, and RE Katz reminds us that trans and queer folk have each other.” —Raquel Salas Rivera, author of lo terciario/ the tertiary and while they sleep (under the bed is another country)
"At once darkly hilarious and surprisingly heartbreaking, RE Katz's debut novel defies genre expectations just as its protagonists defy the gendered, artistic and relationship constructs that surround them. And Then the Gray Heaven reads like a series of pearls slipping off a necklace—a series of stories, images, moments, songs and poems that at first appear absurd, then shocking, then brilliant, then, finally, divine." —Steph Post, author of Miraculum, Lightwood, Walk in the Fire, Holding Smoke, and A Tree Born Crooked
“And Then The Gray Heaven is at once an art manifesto, heist, and road story. Here, the disorientation of grief has a surprisingly joyful orientation of its own. Katz lovingly crafts a diorama of queer kinship and artistic lineage: rendered in such detail it’s realer than the real thing. ” —Zach Ozma, co-editor of We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan, 1961-1991
about the author
RE Katz exhibited Boywitch Codex: Hypertexts as February 2017 Artist in Residence at Dreamland Arts in Buffalo, NY. They work in educational justice and are interested in personal fashion, antifascist witchcraft, and television.
