Kay Gabriel

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

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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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  • A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat Books, 2022)[9]
  • Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Rosa Press, 2021)[10]
  • We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020), co-editor

References

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  1. ^ Gabriel, Kay (November 25, 2019). "The Limits of the Bit". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Kay Gabriel". The Poetry Project. February 4, 2019. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
  3. ^ a b "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. ^ a b 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.
  9. ^ Reviews of A Queen in Bucks County
    • Nersessian, Anahid (April 6, 2023). "The Couple Form". The New York Review of Books; New York. 70 (6): 30.
    • "Poetry Reviews". Publishers Weekly; New York. 269 (50). November 28, 2022 – via ProQuest.
  10. ^ Review of Kissing Other People or the House of Fame
    • Dowling, Sarah (2022). "Kissing Other People or the House of Fame". Chicago Review; Chicago. 66 (1): 133–137, 151 – via ProQuest.