Kay Gabriel is an essayist and poet.[1][2] Gabriel is the author of two books of collected poetry, A Queen in Bucks County and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame. Together with Andrea Abi-Karam, Gabriel co-edited an anthology of trans and gender non-conforming poetry, titled We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, published by Nightboat Books in 2020.[3] The book was a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Her writing and poetry have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Social Text, The Recluse, and The Believer amongst other publications.[4] She lives and works in New York.
Gabriel graduated from Princeton University with a PhD in classics.[5][6] 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.[7]
In 2017, Gabriel wrote and published a book titled: Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 through BOAAT Press.[8] She is the recipient of Poetry Project fellowship and the Lambda Literary fellowship.[9]
She is a co-editor of the anthology on trans poetics with writer Andrea Abi-Karam published in 2020 by Nightboat Books.[10][11] Poets featured in the book include Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Sylvia Rivera, Bryn Kelly, and Leslie Feinberg.[12]
![]() | This article about an American writer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |