Amber Dawn
BornFort Erie, Ontario, Canada
Occupation
  • Writer
  • editor
  • poet
Period2000s–present
Notable worksSub 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]

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 Lesbian Debut Fiction.[2] 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] 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 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

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

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