Lambda Literary Award Winner
In this stunning debut novel, Amber Dawn subverts and transgresses the classic hero's quest adventure to create a dark post-feminist vision not for the faint of heart. Sub ...
Lambda Literary Award and Sunburst Award finalist; a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year
It's the summer of 1990, and Crystal Beach in Ontario has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving ...
The first full-length poetry book by the Lambda Literary and Vancouver Book Award Winner.
Finalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Award-winning writer Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her ...
Finalist, Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes
In her novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femme sexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes ...
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Traditional horror has often portrayed female characters in direct relation to their sexual role according to men, such as the lascivious victim or innocent heroine; even ...
Lambda Literary Award finalist
In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience ...
Vancouver Book Award winner; Lambda Literary Award finalist
A memoir about sex work and sexuality, and how writing became the author's lifeline.
Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating ...
Amber Dawn is the author of the novels Sodom Road Exit (2018) and Sub Rosa (winner of a Lambda Literary Award, 2010), the Vancouver Book Award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life (2013), and the Dorothy ...
Amber Dawn's novel Sodom Road Exit has been shortlisted for a Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic.
Amber Dawn (My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems) and Eve Lazarus (Vancouver Exposed: Searching for the City's Hidden History) are finalists for the 2021 BC and Yukon Book Prizes!