My Art is Killing Me and Other Poems

Inher novels, poetry, and prose, Amber Dawn has written eloquently on queer femmesexuality, individual and systemic trauma, and sex work justice, themes drawnfrom her own lived experience and revealed most notably in her award-winning memoirHow Poetry Saved My Life.

In this, her second poetry collection, Amber Dawn takes stock of the costs of coming out on the page ina heartrendingly honest and intimate investigation of the toll that artmakingtakes on artists. These long poems offer difficult truths within theirintricate narratives that are alternately incendiary, tender, and rapturous.

In a cultural era whenintersectional and marginalized writers are topping bestseller lists, Amber Dawninvites her readers to take an unflinching look at we expect from writers, and from each other.

Includes a foreword by writer Doretta Lau (HowDoes a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?).