A confessional poet, Benaway narrates her sexual and romantic intimacies with partners as well as her work to navigate the daily burden of transphobia and violence. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans women in expansive lyric poems. Longlisted for the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Winner of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetryįinalist for the 2019 Trillium Book Award for Poetryįinalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Awards – Transgender Poetry Categoryįinalist for the 2019 Publishing Triangle Awards – Trans and Gender-Variant Literature Category
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