Amber Dawn

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Amber Dawn
Dayne Ogilvie Prize winner Amber Dawn.jpg
Born Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
  • poet
Period2000s–present
Notable works Sub Rosa
Notable awards2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize
2011 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction
Website
www.amberdawnwrites.com

Amber Dawn is a Canadian writer, who won the 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada to an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer. [1]

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A writer, filmmaker, and performance artist based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Dawn published her debut novel Sub Rosa in 2010. The novel later won that year's Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Debut Fiction, Lesbian. [2] In 2013 she released a new book of essays and poems entitled How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir. [3] [4] The book was a shortlisted nominee in the Lesbian Memoir/Biography category at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards, and won the 2013 City of Vancouver Book Award. [5]

Dawn was also an editor of the anthology Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire, a nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in 2009, and co-editor with Trish Kelly of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. [1]

Dawn was director of programming for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival for four years, ending in 2012. [6] In 2017, she rejoined the Vancouver Queer Film Festival as co-artistic director with Anoushka Ratnarajah. [7]

She served alongside Vivek Shraya and Anne Fleming on the Dayne Ogilvie Prize jury in 2013, selecting C. E. Gatchalian as that year's winner. [8]

Her novel, Sodom Road Exit, was published in 2018. [9] It was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards in 2019. [10]

Bibliography

PublishedTitleTypeISBNNotes
2005With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write PornAnthology ISBN   978-1551521930 editor
2009Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer DesireAnthology ISBN   978-1551522517 editor
2010 Sub Rosa Novel ISBN   978-1551523613
2013How Poetry Saved My LifeAutobiographical ISBN   978-1551525006
2015Where the Words End and My Body BeginsPoetry Collection ISBN   978-1551525839
2018Sodom Road ExitNovel ISBN   978-1551527161
2019Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' PoetryCollection ISBN   978-1551527819 editor
2020My Art is Killing Me and Other PoemsPoetry Collection ISBN   978-1551527932
2025Buzzkill ClamshellPoetry Collection ISBN   9781551529790

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