Kay Gabriel

Kay Gabriel is an American essayist and poet. 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.

Gabriel graduated from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in classics. According to Gabriel, her scholarly work surveys the intersections of classics and modernist studies. In 2017, Gabriel wrote and published a book titled: Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1 through BOAAT Press. She is the recipient of Poetry Project fellowship and the Lambda Literary fellowship.

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. Poets featured in the book include Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Sylvia Rivera, and Leslie Feinberg. 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.

Gabriel is the author of two books, A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat Books, 2022) and Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Nightboat Books, 2023 | Rosa Press, 2021).

• A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat Books, 2022)

• Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Rosa Press, 2021)
• We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020), co-editor