CALE PLETT is a nonbinary, genderfluid writer who lives on Treaty One Territory in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Their YA novels span everything from high school rock bands to nightmares in the woods to reality TV gone wrong, and their poetry and short fiction can be found in a whole variety of journals. Whatever genre they’re writing, they try to create spaces where queer characters can exist safely within their identities. Their karaoke is tuneless, and the last time their car was broken into, the only things left behind were their mix CDs.

Wavelength, a runaway popstar queer YA romance, was their 2025 debut novel from Groundwood Books (House of Anansi). Their second YA, a queer horror novel called The Saw Mouth, is coming out May 12, 2026 from Delacorte Press (Penguin Random House), to be followed by another standalone queer YA horror novel, Stranglehold, in fall 2027.

Cale Plett is represented by Amy Tompkins at Transatlantic Agency.

Follow them @caleplett on Instagram to stay up to date and for little glimpses into their life and brain.