Trebor Healey

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Trebor Healey is an American poet and novelist. He was born in San Francisco, raised in Seattle, and studied English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He spent his twenties in San Francisco, where he was active in the spoken word scene of the late 80s and early 90s, publishing 5 chapbooks of poetry as well as numerous poems and short stories in various reviews, journals, anthologies and zines. Trebor currently lives in Los Angeles, where he is writing his second novel, A Horse Named Sorrow.

As of October 2006, Trebor has published the following books:

  • Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Manic D Press, 1994) Editor, with Marci Blackman
  • Through It Came Bright Colors (Haworth Press, 2003), a novel
  • Sweet Son of Pan (Suspect Thoughts Press, 2006), poetry
  • A Perfect Scar and Other Stories (Haworth Press, 2007), short fiction

In 2004, Through It Came Bright Colors won both the Ferro-Grumley Fiction Award and the Violet Quill Award, and Gay Today named it one of the ten best novels of 2003. Trebor's short story "The Mercy Seat" was named one of the top 10 stories of 2004 in the storySouth Million Writers Awards.

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