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]
Amber Dawn | |
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| Born | Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada |
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| Period | 2000s–present |
| Notable works | Sub Rosa (novel) |
| Notable awards | 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction |
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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 novel, Sodom Road Exit, was published in 2018.[9] It was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards in 2019.[10]
| Year published | Title | Type | ISBN | Notes |
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| 2005 | With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn | Anthology | ISBN 978-1551521930 | editor |
| 2009 | Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire | Anthology | ISBN 978-1551522517 | editor |
| 2010 | Sub Rosa | Novel | ISBN 978-1551523613 | |
| 2013 | How Poetry Saved My Life | Autobiographical | ISBN 978-1551525006 | |
| 2015 | Where the Words End and My Body Begins | Poetry Collection | ISBN 978-1551525839 | |
| 2018 | Sodom Road Exit | Novel | ISBN 978-1551527161 | |
| 2019 | Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry | Collection | ISBN 978-1551527819 | editor |
| 2020 | My Art is Killing Me and Other Poems | Poetry Collection | ISBN 978-1551527932 |
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