Amber Dawn
Amber Dawn | |
|---|---|
 Amber Dawn | |
| Born | Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2000s–present |
| Notable works | Sub Rosa (novel) |
| Notable awards | 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction |
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 newest novel, Sodom Road Exit, was published in 2018.[9]
Bibliography
| Title | Year published | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn | 2005 | editor |
| Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire | 2009 | editor |
| Sub Rosa | 2010 | |
| How Poetry Saved My Life | 2013 | |
| Where the Words End and My Body Begins | 2015 | |
| Sodom Road Exit | 2018 |
References
- ^ a b "Vancouver's Amber Dawn wins LGBT literary award". CBC News, June 26, 2012.
- ^ "Canadian authors celebrated at the Lambda Awards". Quill & Quire, May 27, 2011.
- ^ Kit-Bacon Gressitt (April 30, 2013). "BOOK REVIEW: Amber Dawn's "How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir"". San Diego Gay and Lesbian News. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
- ^ "The red fingernail of authority". Xtra!, April 19, 2013.
- ^ "Dawn's sex-trade memoir nabs City of Vancouver award". Vancouver Sun, November 23, 2013.
- ^ Takeuchi, Craig (August 27, 2012). "Amber Dawn leaves Vancouver Queer Film Festival for literary life". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ^ "Vancouver Queer Film Fest nets two arts luminaries as artistic directors". Vancouver Metro, March 17, 2017.
- ^ "C. E. Gatchalian wins Dayne Ogilvie Prize" Archived June 29, 2013, at archive.today. National Post, June 27, 2013.
- ^ "How an abandoned small-town theme park inspired Amber Dawn's new novel". CBC Books, May 7, 2018.
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- 21st-century Canadian poets
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian women poets
- Canadian memoirists
- LGBT writers from Canada
- Lesbian writers
- Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction winners
- Living people
- Writers from Vancouver
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- LGBT memoirists
- LGBT poets
- LGBT novelists
- Women memoirists
- Canadian anthologists
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Women anthologists
- People from Fort Erie, Ontario