Kay Gabriel

Kay Gabriel is a poet and essayist who received her PhD from Princeton University. She is the author of Kissing Other People or the House of Fame (Nightboat Books, 2023) and A Queen in Bucks County (Nightboat Books, 2022). She coedited, with Andrea Abi-Karam, We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020), which was a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.

Gabriel has received fellowships from PEN America, Lambda Literary, The Poetry Project, and Princeton University. She has taught at Princeton, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Cooper Union, Wendy’s Subway, and the Bard Microcollege at Brooklyn Public Library. She is currently the editorial director at The Poetry Project. Gabriel lives in New York City.