Amber Dawn
| Amber Dawn | |
|---|---|
 Amber Dawn (m) with fellow Dayne Ogilvie Prize winners Farzana Doctor and Debra Anderson. | |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2000s–present |
| Notable works | Sub Rosa |
| Notable awards |
2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction |
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]
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]
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.[7]
Bibliography
| Title | Year published | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn | 2005 | editor |
| Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire | 2009 | editor |
| Sub Rosa | 2010 | |
| How Poetry Saved My Life | 2013 | |
| Where the Words End and My Body Begins | 2015 |
References
- 1 2 "Vancouver's Amber Dawn wins LGBT literary award". CBC News, June 26, 2012.
- ↑ "Canadian authors celebrated at the Lambda Awards". Quill & Quire, May 27, 2011.
- ↑ Kit-Bacon Gressitt (April 30, 2013). "BOOK REVIEW: Amber Dawn's "How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir"". San Diego Gay and Lesbian News. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
- ↑ "The red fingernail of authority". Xtra!, April 19, 2013.
- ↑ "Dawn's sex-trade memoir nabs City of Vancouver award". Vancouver Sun, November 23, 2013.
- ↑ Takeuchi, Craig (August 27, 2012). "Amber Dawn leaves Vancouver Queer Film Festival for literary life". The Georgia Straight. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
- ↑ "C. E. Gatchalian wins Dayne Ogilvie Prize". National Post, June 27, 2013.