Kay Gabriel is an American essayist and poet. She is the author of three books, co-editor of a poetry anthology, and received both a

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 poetr ...

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 lives and works in New York.

Work

Gabriel graduated from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

with a Ph.D. in

classics Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

. According to Gabriel, her scholarly work surveys the intersections of classics and

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

studies. 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

fellowship. In 2019 she joined the editorial collective for the ''

Newsletter'', a quarterly publication. She is a co-editor of ''We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics'' with writer Andrea Abi-Karam, published in 2020 by

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 ...

. 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 Yo ...

, 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.

. The book was a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Her writing and poetry has appeared in ''

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

'', ''

Social Text ''Social Text'' is a peer-reviewed 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 ques ...

'', and '' The Believer'', among other publications. Gabriel is the author of two books, ''A Queen in Bucks County'' (

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

, 2023 , Rosa Press, 2021).

Publications

* ''A Queen in Bucks County'' (Nightboat Books, 2022) * ''Kissing Other People or the House of Fame'' (Rosa Press, 2021)Review of ''Kissing Other People or the House of Fame'' * * ''We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics'' (Nightboat Books, 2020), co-editor

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gabriel, Kay 21st-century American essayists 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers American women essayists American women poets Poets from New York City Year of birth missing (living people) Princeton University alumni Living people