Author · born 1974
Amber Dawn
Amber Dawn (born 1974) is a Canadian writer. Born in Crystal Beach.
Our catalogue lists 2 books by Amber Dawn, mostly sapphic fiction, horror and queer fantasy. They span 2009 to 2010. The most-read is Fist of the Spider Woman (2009).
Books by Amber Dawn
Fist of the Spider Woman
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Sub Rosa
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Awards
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2020 — LGBT Anthology, HUstling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2019 — Lesbian Fiction, Sodom Road Exit (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2014 — Lesbian Memoir or Biography, How Poetry Saved My Life (nominee)
- ✦Lambda Literary Awards 2010 — LGBT Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror, Fist of the Spider Woman (nominee)
- 🏆Lambda Literary Awards — Overall (winner)
Biography
Amber Dawn is the author of the novels Sodom Road Exit (2018) and Sub Rosa (winner of a Lambda Literary Award, 2010), the Vancouver Book Award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life (2013), the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize-nominated poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins (2015). She is also editor of Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. She teaches creative writing at Douglas College in Vancouver, and also leads several low-barrier community writing classes.