Jes Battis
November 13th, 2025
As a queer autistic writer and teacher, Jes Battis brings a unique lens to their work, splitting time between the prairies and the West Coast. Their book, It’s Only Forever: LABYRINTH (ECW $19.95), is a wild, intimate and political deep dive into Jim Henson’s 1986 classic starring David Bowie and its menagerie of lovable, gender-defying goblins. It’s Only Forever explores Labyrinth as an ’80s time capsule that both reflects and challenges its era, offering its young audience an alternative to conservatism at a time when political toxicity pushed queerness into the shadows. Battis is also the author of The Winter Knight (ECW, 2023), which was featured in the Canada Reads 2024 competition, as well as the Occult Special Investigator series and the Parallel Parks series. They teach queer and trans studies, medieval literature and representations of disability/neurodiversity in pop culture at the University of Regina. 9781770418585
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