Kay Ulanday Barrett

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Kay Ulanday Barrett is the author of More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020), which received a 2021 Stonewall Barbara Gittings Literature Honor Award from the American Library Association, and was a finalist for the 2021 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. In 2022, they received the Cy Twombly Award for Poetry from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. The recipient of fellowships from VONA Voices, Monson Arts, and MacDowell, they currently serve as a disability justice and trans justice advocate, and live in the unceded and occupied territory of the Lenape and Munsee people.