{{short description|American essayist and poet}} {{Use American English|date=December 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox person | name = Kay Gabriel | image = Kay Gabriel Poetry Project's 51st New Year's Day Marathon 2025.jpg | alt = | caption = Kay Gabriel at the Poetry Project's 51st New Year's Day Marathon 2025 | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | burial_place = | occupation = Essayist, poet | awards = | spouse = | children = | education = Princeton University | signature = | party = }} '''Kay Gabriel''' is an American essayist and poet.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Limits of the Bit|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-limits-of-the-bit/|last=Gabriel|first=Kay|website=Los Angeles Review of Books|date=November 25, 2019 |access-date=May 4, 2020}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Kay Gabriel|url=https://www.poetryproject.org/people/kay-gabriel|access-date=November 28, 2020|website=The Poetry Project|date=February 4, 2019 }}</ref> 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. She is married to the producer Seva Granik.<ref>{{Cite web |title=PIN–UP {{!}} FEELING EVERYTHING AT THE PERFORMANCE SPACE GALA |url=https://pinupmagazine.org/articles/performance-space-gala-feel-everything |access-date=2026-04-23 |website=PIN–UP {{!}} FEELING EVERYTHING AT THE PERFORMANCE SPACE GALA |language=en}}</ref>
== Work == Gabriel graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in classics.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Kay Gabriel|url=https://classics.princeton.edu/people/alumni-graduate/kay-gabriel|access-date=November 28, 2020|website=Princeton Classics|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Paperback)|url=https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781643620336|access-date=November 28, 2020|website=Women & Children First|language=en}}</ref> According to Gabriel, her scholarly work surveys the intersections of classics and modernist studies.<ref name=":1" /> In 2017, Gabriel wrote and published a book titled: ''Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1'' through BOAAT Press.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://entropymag.org/the-care-and-feeding-of-your-sex-change-vegan-passover-with-kay-gabriel/|title=The Care and Feeding of Your Sex Change: Vegan Passover with Kay Gabriel|website=entropymag.org|date=April 18, 2019|access-date=May 4, 2020|archive-date=September 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921091500/https://entropymag.org/the-care-and-feeding-of-your-sex-change-vegan-passover-with-kay-gabriel/|url-status=dead}}</ref> She is the recipient of a Poetry Project fellowship and the Lambda Literary fellowship.<ref name=":0" />
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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Call for Submissions: Radical Trans Poetics Anthology|url=https://nightboat.org/call-for-submissions-radical-trans-poetics-anthology/|date=April 22, 2019|website=Nightboat Books|language=en|access-date=May 4, 2020}}</ref><ref name="them.">{{Cite web|last=Sanders|first=Wren|title=This Trans Poetics Anthology Imagines a World Where "Everything Belongs to Everyone"|url=https://www.them.us/story/read-me-we-want-it-all-trans-poetry-andrea-abi-karam-kay-gabriel|access-date=November 28, 2020|website=them.|date=November 25, 2020 |language=en-us}}</ref> Poets featured in the book include Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Sylvia Rivera, and Leslie Feinberg.<ref name="them." /> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=kay gabriel |url=https://www.blush-lit.com/kay-gabriel |access-date=2020-05-04 |website=b l u s h |language=en-US}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nef |first1=Hari |title="Fucking is a Form of Knowledge": Kay Gabriel, in Conversation with Hari Nef |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/kay-gabriel-in-conversation-with-hari-nef |website=Interview |publisher=Crystal Ball Media |access-date=29 November 2025 |date=2 October 2025}}</ref> The party series has featured performers such as Lauren Flax and Nita Aviance, among others.<ref>{{cite web |title=Past Events |url=https://ra.co/promoters/136156/past-events |website=Resident Advisor |access-date=29 November 2025}}</ref> == Publications == * ''Fishing and Trapping'' (Topos Press, 2025) * ''Perverts'' (Nightboat Books, 2025)<ref>{{Cite web |title=BOMB Magazine {{!}} Kay Gabriel by Shiv Kotecha |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2025/10/20/kay-gabriel-by-shiv-kotecha/ |access-date=2025-11-06 |website=BOMB Magazine |language=en}}</ref> * ''A Queen in Bucks County'' (Nightboat Books, 2022)<ref>Reviews of ''A Queen in Bucks County'' *{{Cite journal |last=Nersessian |first=Anahid |date=April 6, 2023 |title=The Couple Form |journal=The New York Review of Books; New York |volume=70 |issue=6 |page=30}} *{{Cite journal |date=November 28, 2022 |title=Poetry Reviews |journal=Publishers Weekly; New York |volume=269 |issue=50 |id={{ProQuest|<!--ProQuest data goes here--> }}}}</ref> * ''Kissing Other People or the House of Fame'' (Rosa Press, 2021)<ref>Review of ''Kissing Other People or the House of Fame'' * {{Cite journal |last=Dowling |first=Sarah |date=2022 |title=Kissing Other People or the House of Fame |journal=Chicago Review; Chicago |volume=66 |issue=1 |pages=133-137, 151 |id={{ProQuest|<!--ProQuest data goes here--> }}}}</ref> * ''We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics'' (Nightboat Books, 2020), co-editor
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== External links == * [https://www.kaygabriel.com/ Official website]
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