Kay Gabriel is an American essayist and poet. In 2019 she joined the editorial collective for the ''

Poetry Project The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church was founded in 1966 at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in the East Village of Manhattan by, among others, the poet and translator Paul Blackburn. It has been a crucial venue for new and experimental poetry f ...

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 Nightboat Books is an American nonprofit literary press founded in 2004 and located in Brooklyn, New York. The press publishes poetry, fiction, essays, translations, and intergenre books. History The press was founded in 2004 by Kazim Ali and ...

, 2022) and ''Kissing Other People or the House of Fame'' (

, 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'' (

, 2020). The book was a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Her writing and poetry have appeared in ''

The Brooklyn Rail ''The Brooklyn Rail'' is a publication and platform for the arts, culture, humanities, and politics. The ''Rail'' is based out of Brooklyn, New York. It features in-depth critical essays, fiction, poetry, as well as interviews with artists, criti ...

'', ''

Social Text ''Social Text'' is an academic journal published by Duke University Press. Since its inception by an independent editorial collective in 1979, ''Social Text'' has addressed a wide range of social and cultural phenomena, covering questions of gende ...

'', ''The Recluse, and'' '' The Believer'' amongst other publications''.'' She lives and works in New York.

Work

Gabriel graduated from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

with a Ph.D. in classics. 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. In 2017, Gabriel wrote and published a book titled: ''Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1'' through BOAAT Press. She is the recipient of

fellowship and the

Lambda Literary The Lambda Literary Foundation (also known as Lambda Literary) is an American LGBTQ literary organization whose mission is to nurture and advocate for LGBTQ writers, elevating the impact of their words to create community, preserve their legaci ...

fellowship. She is a co-editor of the anthology on trans poetics with writer Andrea Abi-Karam published in 2020 by

. Poets featured in the book include Joshua Jennifer Espinoza,

Sylvia Rivera Sylvia Rivera (July 2, 1951 – February 19, 2002) was an American gay liberation and transgender activism, transgender rights activist September 21, 1995. Accessed July 24, 2015. who was also a noted community worker in LGBT history in New Yor ...

, Bryn Kelly, and

Leslie Feinberg Leslie Feinberg (September 1, 1949 – November 15, 2014) was an American butch lesbian, transgender activist, communist, and author. Feinberg authored ''Stone Butch Blues'' in 1993.

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

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