Amber Dawn
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. 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 LGBT Debut Fiction, Lesbian.
Amber Dawn
Katrina Afonso · I took this picture at the 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize Presentation Previously published: I first published this photo on the Writers' Trust's Facebook page · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Birthplace
- Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
- Occupation
- * Writer
- Awards
- 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction
- Born
- 1974 · Fort Erie.
- Nationality
- Canada
- Known for
- Sub Rosa · Sodom Road Exit
- Honours
- Lambda Literary Award
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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. 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 LGBT Debut Fiction, Lesbian.
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In 2013, she released a new book of essays and poems entitled How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir. 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. 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. Dawn was director of programming for the Vancouver Queer Film Festival for four years, ending in 2012. In 2017, she rejoined the Vancouver Queer Film Festival as co-artistic director with Anoushka Ratnarajah. She served alongside Vivek Shraya and Anne Fleming on the Dayne Ogilvie Prize jury in 2013, selecting C. Gatchalian as that year's winner. Her novel, Sodom Road Exit, was published in 2018. It was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards in 2019. In 2020 Dawn and Justin Ducharme received a Lambda Literary Award nomination for LGBTQ Anthology at the 32nd Lambda Literary Awards, as coeditors of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry. In 2021, her poetry collection My Art Is Killing Me was shortlisted for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes.
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• Birthplace — Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada • Occupation — * Writer • editor • poet • Period — 2000s–present • Notable Works — Sub Rosa • Awards — 2012 Dayne Ogilvie Prize 2011 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Debut Fiction • Website — www.amberdawnwrites.com
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1974
Amber Dawn born at Fort Erie.
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