Trebor Healey is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

and

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

. He was born in

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

, raised in

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, and studied English and

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at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He spent his twenties in San Francisco, where he was active in the

spoken word Spoken word refers to an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a late 20th century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of ...

scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, publishing five

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as well as numerous poems and

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest t ...

in various

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, journals,

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and

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. He is openly gay and is currently living in

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Bibliography

Novels

* ''Through It Came Bright Colors'', 2003 (Haworth Press, ) * ''Faun'', 2012 (

Lethe Press Lethe Press is an American book publishing company based in Maple Shade, New Jersey.Manic D Press Manic D Press is an American literary press based in San Francisco, California publishing fiction (novels and short stories), poetry, cultural studies, art, narrative-oriented comix, children's books, and alternative travel trade paperbacks. It was ...

, ). Co-editor with Marci Blackman. * ''Queer and Catholic'', 2008 (Taylor & Francis, ). Co-editor with Amie Evans.

Awards

In 2004, ''Through It Came Bright Colors'' won both the

Ferro-Grumley Award The Ferro-Grumley Award is an annual literary award, presented by Publishing Triangle and the Ferro-Grumley Foundation to a book deemed the year's best work of LGBT fiction. The award is presented in memory of writers Robert Ferro and Michael Grum ...

and the Violet Quill Award, and ''Gay Today'' named it one of the ten best novels of 2003. He won a second Ferro-Grumley Award in 2013 for ''A Horse Named Sorrow''. Healey's short story "The Mercy Seat" was named one of the top 10 stories of 2004 in the ''

storySouth ''storySouth'' is an online quarterly literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, criticism, essays, and visual artwork, with a focus on the Southern United States. The journal also runs the annual Million Writers Award to select the best sh ...

Million Writers Awards Million Writers Award was a short story literary award presented annually by storySouth. It honored the best online short stories. The award was structured to be egalitarian allowing for anyone to nominate a story including readers, authors, editor ...

. He was awarded the

Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize The Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize is an American literary award, presented to two writers, one male and one female, from the LGBT community to honour their body of work. First presented by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festi ...

from the

Lambda Literary Foundation 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 ...

in 2013."Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist and Emerging Writer Winners Announced"

, April 24, 2013.

References

External links

Trebor Healey
21st-century American novelists American male novelists American spoken word artists American gay writers Writers from California Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni 1962 births American LGBT poets American LGBT novelists American male short story writers 21st-century American poets American male poets 21st-century American short story writers 21st-century American male writers {{US-novelist-1960s-stub