Kay Gabriel is an American essayist and poet.[1][2] She is the author of three books, co-editor of a poetry anthology, and received both a Poetry Project fellowship and the Lambda Literary fellowship. She lives and works in New York. She is married to the producer Seva Granik.[3]
Kay Gabriel | |
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 Kay Gabriel at the Poetry Project's 51st New Year's Day Marathon 2025 | |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Occupations | Essayist, poet |
Work
editGabriel graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in classics.[4][5] According to Gabriel, her scholarly work surveys the intersections of classics and modernist studies.[4] In 2017, Gabriel wrote and published a book titled: Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 through BOAAT Press.[6] She is the recipient of a Poetry Project fellowship and the Lambda Literary fellowship.[2]
In 2019 she joined the editorial collective for the Poetry Project 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.[7][8] Poets featured in the book include Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Sylvia Rivera, and Leslie Feinberg.[8] The book was a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Her writing and poetry has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Social Text, and The Believer, among other publications.[9]
Gabriel is the author of several books including Perverts (Nightboat Books, 2025), A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat Books, 2022) and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Nightboat Books, 2023 | Rosa Press, 2021).
Since 2024, Gabriel has been the organizer of Faggots are Women, a queer party series in New York City.[10] The party series has featured performers such as Lauren Flax and Nita Aviance, among others.[11]
Publications
editReferences
edit- ↑ Gabriel, Kay (November 25, 2019). "The Limits of the Bit". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- 1 2 "Kay Gabriel". The Poetry Project. February 4, 2019. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ "PIN–UP | FEELING EVERYTHING AT THE PERFORMANCE SPACE GALA". PIN–UP | FEELING EVERYTHING AT THE PERFORMANCE SPACE GALA. Retrieved April 23, 2026.
- 1 2 "Kay Gabriel". Princeton Classics. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Paperback)". Women & Children First. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ "The Care and Feeding of Your Sex Change: Vegan Passover with Kay Gabriel". entropymag.org. April 18, 2019. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ↑ "Call for Submissions: Radical Trans Poetics Anthology". Nightboat Books. April 22, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- 1 2 Sanders, Wren (November 25, 2020). "This Trans Poetics Anthology Imagines a World Where "Everything Belongs to Everyone"". them. Retrieved November 28, 2020.
- ↑ "kay gabriel". b l u s h. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
- ↑ Nef, Hari (October 2, 2025). ""Fucking is a Form of Knowledge": Kay Gabriel, in Conversation with Hari Nef". Interview. Crystal Ball Media. Retrieved November 29, 2025.
- ↑ "Past Events". Resident Advisor. Retrieved November 29, 2025.
- ↑ "BOMB Magazine | Kay Gabriel by Shiv Kotecha". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved November 6, 2025.
- ↑ Reviews of A Queen in Bucks County
- Nersessian, Anahid (April 6, 2023). "The Couple Form". The New York Review of Books; New York. 70 (6): 30.
- "Poetry Reviews". Publishers Weekly; New York. 269 (50). November 28, 2022.
- ↑ Review of Kissing Other People or the House of Fame
- Dowling, Sarah (2022). "Kissing Other People or the House of Fame". Chicago Review; Chicago. 66 (1): 133–137, 151.