Amber Dawn
Primary tabs
Other Scholars in Creative Writing
Other Scholars in Language, Literature and Performing Arts
Academic Introduction
MFA, BA (UBC)
Amber Dawn is the author of four books and the editor of three anthologies. Her debut novel Sub Rosa (2010) won the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction and the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize. Her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir (2013) won the Vancouver Book Award. Her poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins (2015) was a finalist for BC Book Award’s Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her sophomore novel Sodom Road Exit (2018) was nominated for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize.
Recent Citations for Amber Dawn
- Sodom road exit
- This (traumatized, kinky, queer) body holds a story
- Fist of the spider woman: tales of fear and queer desire
- My art is killing me, and other poems
- Sub Rosa
- Where the words end and my body begins
- How poetry saved my life: a hustler's memoir
- Hustling verse: an anthology of sex workers' poetry
- From rants to love letters: sex worker zines tell many truths
Subscribe to Amber Dawn RSS feed