Amber Dawn is a

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writer, who won the 2012

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, presented by the

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to an emerging lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender writer."Vancouver's Amber Dawn wins LGBT literary award"

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, June 26, 2012. A writer, filmmaker, and performance artist based in

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, British Columbia, Dawn published her

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'' in 2010. The novel later won that year's Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction. 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''. In 2013 she released a new book of essays and poems entitled ''How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir''. The book was a shortlisted nominee in the Lesbian Memoir/Biography category at the 26th Lambda Literary Awards, and won the 2013

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. Dawn was director of programming for the

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for four years, ending in 2012. In 2017, she rejoined the Vancouver Queer Film Festival as co-artistic director with Anoushka Ratnarajah. She served alongside

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and Anne Fleming on the Dayne Ogilvie Prize jury in 2013, selecting C. E. Gatchalian as that year's winner. Her novel, ''Sodom Road Exit'', was published in 2018. It was shortlisted for the

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at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards in 2019."Vivek Shraya, Joshua Whitehead among Canadian finalists for Lambda Literary Awards"
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'', March 7, 2019.

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