Kay Gabriel is an 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 trans 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 have appeared in n+1, The Nation, The Brooklyn Rail, Social Text, Dissent Magazine,The Recluse, and The Believer amongst 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 the anthology on 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, Bryn Kelly, and Leslie Feinberg.[12]

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

  1. ↑ Gabriel, Kay (25 November 2019). "The Limits of the Bit". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  2. ↑ "Kay Gabriel". The Poetry Project. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  3. ↑ "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics". Nightboat Books. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  4. ↑ "kay gabriel". b l u s h. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  5. ↑ "Kay Gabriel". Princeton Classics. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  6. ↑ "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Paperback)". Women & Children First. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  7. ↑ "Kay Gabriel *20 | Princeton Classics". classics.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  8. ↑ "The Care and Feeding of Your Sex Change: Vegan Passover with Kay Gabriel". entropymag.org. 2019-04-18. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  9. ↑ "Kay Gabriel". The Poetry Project. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  10. ↑ "Call for Submissions: Radical Trans Poetics Anthology". Nightboat Books. 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  11. ↑ Sanders, Wren (25 November 2020). "This Trans Poetics Anthology Imagines a World Where "Everything Belongs to Everyone"". them. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  12. ↑ Sanders, Wren (25 November 2020). "This Trans Poetics Anthology Imagines a World Where "Everything Belongs to Everyone"". them. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
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