kari edwards

kari edwards (December 2, 1954 – December 2, 2006)^[1] was a poet, artist and gender activist. Her name is written all lowercase. She won the New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002) and posthumously won a Lambda Literary Award.

She authored have 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' 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.^[2]

Death

She died of heart failure, aged 52, on December 2, 2006.

Books/E-books

• A Day in the Life of P, A is for Arts (2002) ISBN 978-1930068186
• Iduna, O Books (2003) ISBN 978-1882022496
• have been blue for charity, Blaze Vox Books (2006) ISBN 978-1-934289-39-6
• Bharat_jiva, Dusie Press (2006)
• Obedience, Factory School (2008) ISBN 978-1-60001-044-6
• succubus in my pocket, EOAGH (2015) ISBN 978-1-49518-614-1

External links

• kari edwards on the Poets' Corner
• Interview at Rain Taxi
• Interview at Chicago Postmodern Poetry
• kari's blog
• back in amerika...and getting ready to leave again, DELIRIOUSHEM
• Editorial for EOAGH Issue 3: Queering Language
• Review of iduna

References