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kari edwards
San Francisco, California
NationalityAmerican
Known forPoetry, Sculpture, and Gender Activism
PartnerFrances Blau[1]

kari edwards (December 2, 1954 – December 2, 2006)

activist. Her name is written all lowercase. She won the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award in literature (2002)[1]
and posthumously won a Lambda Literary Award.

She authored having been blue for charity (BlazeVox: 2006); obedience (Factory School: 2005); iduna (O Books: 2003); a day in the life of p (subpress collective: 2002); a diary of lies, Belladonna #27 (

Belladonna Books
: 2002); obLiqUE paRt(itON): colLABorationS (xPress(ed): 2002); and post/(pink) (Scarlet Press: 2000).

edwards's work has appeared in numerous publications, such as anthologies Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard, Painted leaf Press (2000), and Electric Spandex: anthology of writing the queer text (Pyriform Press: 2002). Her works have also been exhibited throughout the U.S.

A posthumous book of edwards' poetry, succubus in my pocket, published in 2015 by EOAGH won a 2016

Lambda Literary Award in the category of Transgender Poetry.[3]

Death

She died of a pulmonary embolism, aged 52, on December 2, 2006.[4]

Books/E-books

  • A Day in the Life of P, A is for Arts (2002)
  • Iduna, O Books (2003)
  • having been blue for charity, Blaze Vox Books (2006)
  • Bharat_jiva, Dusie Press (2006)
  • Obedience, Factory School (2008)
  • succubus in my pocket, EOAGH (2015)
  • dôNrm’-lä-püsl, Punctum Books (2017)

References

  1. ^ a b c d "poet kari edwards". poets.org. The Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  2. ^ Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 (database on-line). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.
  3. ^ @LambdaLiterary (June 6, 2016). "Lammy for Trans poetry goes to succubus in my pocket by kari edwards #lammys" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ^ Szymanski, Zak (April 12, 2007). "Memorial set for kari edwards". Bay Area Reporter – via GLBT Historical Society, Online Searchable Obituary Database.

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