Kay Gabriel is an American essayist and poet.[1][2] In 2019 she joined the editorial collective for the Poetry Project Newsletter, a quarterly publication for reviews, essays, interviews, poems, remembrances and arts criticism. 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). Together with Andrea Abi-Karam, Gabriel co-edited an anthology of poetry by transgender and gender non-conforming poets and writers, titled We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020).[3] 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.[4] She lives and works in New York.
Work
Gabriel graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in classics.[5][6] Gabriel's scholarly work surveys the intersections of classics and modernist studies. She is concerned with historical materialism, utopia, and aesthetics, and explores this through a series of case studies in the 20th-century interpretation and adaptation of Euripides.[7]
In 2017, Gabriel wrote and published a book titled: Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 through BOAAT Press.[8] She is the recipient of Poetry Project fellowship and the Lambda Literary fellowship.[9]
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.[10][11] Poets featured in the book include Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Sylvia Rivera, and Leslie Feinberg.[11]
Publications
- A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat Books, 2022)
- Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Rosa Press, 2021)
- We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020), co-editor
References
- ↑ Gabriel, Kay (November 25, 2019). "The Limits of the Bit". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ↑ "Kay Gabriel". The Poetry Project. February 4, 2019. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics". Nightboat Books. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ "kay gabriel". b l u s h. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ↑ "Kay Gabriel". Princeton Classics. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Paperback)". Women & Children First. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ "Kay Gabriel *20 | Princeton Classics". classics.princeton.edu. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ↑ "The Care and Feeding of Your Sex Change: Vegan Passover with Kay Gabriel". entropymag.org. April 18, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ↑ "Kay Gabriel". The Poetry Project. February 4, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ↑ "Call for Submissions: Radical Trans Poetics Anthology". Nightboat Books. April 22, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- 1 2 Sanders, Wren (November 25, 2020). "This Trans Poetics Anthology Imagines a World Where "Everything Belongs to Everyone"". them. Retrieved November 28, 2020.