Genevieve Hudson is the author of Boys of Alabama, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and shortlisted for the Stonewall Book Award. She also wrote the story collection Pretend We Live Here, which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award. Her second novel, Headfirst, is forthcoming with Roxane Gay Books.

Hudson's work has appeared in Elle, Oprah Magazine, McSweeney’s, BOMB, Bookforum, Lit Hub, and Electric Literature, and was featured in Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing. She was the recipient of a Creative & Performing Arts Fulbright to Amsterdam and has been awarded fellowships and residencies from MacDowell, Ucross Foundation, Caldera Arts, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and Vermont Studio Center. Hudson lives in Portland, Oregon, with her wife and two dogs.