# Kay Gabriel > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kay_Gabriel > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kay_Gabriel.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Gabriel > Source revision: 1354869837 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/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](/source/Princeton_University) | signature = | party = }} '''Kay Gabriel''' is an American essayist and poet.{{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}}{{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 }} She is the author of three books, co-editor of a poetry anthology, and received both a [Poetry Project](/source/Poetry_Project) fellowship and the [Lambda Literary](/source/Lambda_Literary_Foundation) fellowship. She lives and works in New York. She is married to the producer [Seva Granik](/source/Seva_Granik).{{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}} == Work == Gabriel graduated from [Princeton University](/source/Princeton_University) with a Ph.D. in [classics](/source/classics).{{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}}{{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}} According to Gabriel, her scholarly work surveys the [intersections](/source/intersectionality) of classics and [modernist](/source/modernist) studies. In 2017, Gabriel wrote and published a book titled: ''Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1'' through BOAAT Press.{{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}} She is the recipient of a [Poetry Project](/source/Poetry_Project) fellowship and the [Lambda Literary](/source/Lambda_Literary_Foundation) fellowship. In 2019 she joined the editorial collective for the ''[Poetry Project](/source/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](/source/Nightboat_Books).{{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](/source/Nightboat_Books)|language=en|access-date=May 4, 2020}}{{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}} Poets featured in the book include [Joshua Jennifer Espinoza](/source/Joshua_Jennifer_Espinoza), [Sylvia Rivera](/source/Sylvia_Rivera), and [Leslie Feinberg](/source/Leslie_Feinberg). The book was a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. Her writing and poetry has appeared in ''[The Brooklyn Rail](/source/The_Brooklyn_Rail)'', ''[Social Text](/source/Social_Text)'', and ''[The Believer](/source/The_Believer_(magazine))'', among other publications.{{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}} Gabriel is the author of several books including ''Perverts'' ([Nightboat Books](/source/Nightboat_Books), 2025), ''A Queen in Bucks County'' ([Nightboat Books](/source/Nightboat_Books), 2022) and ''Kissing Other People or the House of Fame'' ([Nightboat Books](/source/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.{{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](/source/Interview_(magazine)) |publisher=Crystal Ball Media |access-date=29 November 2025 |date=2 October 2025}} The party series has featured performers such as [Lauren Flax](/source/Lauren_Flax) and [Nita Aviance](/source/Nita_Aviance), among others.{{cite web |title=Past Events |url=https://ra.co/promoters/136156/past-events |website=[Resident Advisor](/source/Resident_Advisor) |access-date=29 November 2025}} == Publications == * ''Fishing and Trapping'' (Topos Press, 2025) * ''Perverts'' (Nightboat Books, 2025){{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}} * ''A Queen in Bucks County'' (Nightboat Books, 2022)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| }}}} * ''Kissing Other People or the House of Fame'' (Rosa Press, 2021)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| }}}} * ''We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics'' (Nightboat Books, 2020), co-editor == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * [https://www.kaygabriel.com/ Official website] {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gabriel, Kay}} Category:21st-century American essayists Category:21st-century American poets Category:American women essayists Category:Poets from New York City Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Princeton University alumni Category:Living people Category:21st-century American women poets --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kay Gabriel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Gabriel) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Gabriel?action=history)). 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