Jade Sylvan

Jade Sylvan (born September 9, 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet, author, performer, producer, and performing artist living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of Kissing Oscar Wilde and The Spark Singer, a collection of poetry. She has been called a "risque queer icon" by the Boston Globe. ^[1]

Her most recent book, Kissing Oscar Wilde (Write Bloody Publishing), a novelized memoir about the author's experience as a touring poet in Paris, was a finalist for the New England Book Award ^[2] and the Bisexual Book Award.^[3]

Sylvan has had pieces published in The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, The Toast, PANK Magazine, and elsewhere online about polyamory, queer identity, and LGBT issues. She has toured extensively, performing her work to audiences across the United States, Canada, and Europe. She is heavily rooted in the literary and performance community of Cambridge and Somerville, Massachusetts. Over the past decade, Sylvan has produced and performed in acclaimed stage-shows and workshops in collaboration with entities such as The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Harvard University, and Mass Poetry.

Jade Sylvan published an open letter to Mark Zuckerberg in the Washington Post in 2014, which addressed concerns of gender equality. It focused on concerns regarding damages to the LGBT community brought about by Facebook policies regarding real-name assignments, as it discriminates against drag queens.^[4]

In 2012, Sylvan co-wrote and starred in the feature-film TEN (2014 film) (awarded "Runner-Up" for Best Screenplay and Best Genre Film at the Imaginarium Film Festival^[5]), and was also commissioned to write the official novelization of the film. ^[6]

Works

• Kissing Oscar Wilde (ISBN 9781938912320)
• The Spark Singer (ISBN 9781933132730)

References