Kay Gabriel
American essayist and poet
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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.
Kay Gabriel | |
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UC Berkeley's Lunch Poems in 2023 | |
| Education | Princeton University |
| Occupations | Essayist, poet |
Work
Gabriel graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in classics.[3][4] According to Gabriel, her scholarly work surveys the intersections of classics and modernist studies.[3] In 2017, Gabriel wrote and published a book titled: Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 through BOAAT Press.[5] She is the recipient of 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.[6][7] Poets featured in the book include Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Sylvia Rivera, and Leslie Feinberg.[7] 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.[8]
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.[9] The party series has featured performers such as Lauren Flax and Nita Aviance, among others.[10]