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Kay Gabriel is an American essayist and poet. [1] [2] She is the author of three books, co-editor of a poetry anthology, and received both a Poetry Project fellowship and the Lambda Literary fellowship. She lives and works in New York.

Work

Gabriel graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in classics. [3] [4] According to Gabriel, her scholarly work surveys the intersections of classics and modernist studies. [3] In 2017, Gabriel wrote and published a book titled: Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 through BOAAT Press. [5] She is the recipient of Poetry Project fellowship and the Lambda Literary fellowship. [2]

In 2019 she joined the editorial collective for the Poetry Project Newsletter, a quarterly publication. She is a co-editor of We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics with writer Andrea Abi-Karam, published in 2020 by Nightboat Books. [6] [7] Poets featured in the book include Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Sylvia Rivera, and Leslie Feinberg. [7] The book was a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Her writing and poetry has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail , Social Text , and The Believer , among other publications. [8]

Gabriel is the author of two books, A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat Books, 2022) and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Nightboat Books, 2023 | Rosa Press, 2021).

Publications

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References

  1. Gabriel, Kay (November 25, 2019). "The Limits of the Bit". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Kay Gabriel". The Poetry Project. February 4, 2019. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Kay Gabriel". Princeton Classics. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  4. "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Paperback)". Women & Children First. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  5. "The Care and Feeding of Your Sex Change: Vegan Passover with Kay Gabriel". entropymag.org. April 18, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  6. "Call for Submissions: Radical Trans Poetics Anthology". Nightboat Books . April 22, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  7. 1 2 Sanders, Wren (November 25, 2020). "This Trans Poetics Anthology Imagines a World Where "Everything Belongs to Everyone"". them. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  8. "kay gabriel". b l u s h. Retrieved May 4, 2020.