Kay Ulanday Barrett

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rdf:langString Kay Ulanday Barrett is a published poet, performer, educator, food writer, cultural strategist, and transgender, gender non-conforming, and disability advocate based in New York and New Jersey, whose work has been showcased nationally and internationally. Their second book, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Literature Finalist. They are a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship recipient, three-time Pushcart Prize Nominee, and two-time Best of the Net Nominee. Barrett's writing and performance centers on the experience of queer, transgender, people of color, mixed race people, Asian, and Filipino/a/x community. The focus of their artistic work navigates multiple systems of oppression in the context of the U.S. They have received fellowships from MacDowell (2020), Lambda Literary (2017, 2018), VONA Voices (2018), and Macondo (2018). In 2018 they were Guest Faculty at the Poetry Foundation. They have featured and given keynotes at venues such as The U.N., Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Museum, Hemispheric Institute, and the Chicago Historical Society. They also have served on committees, organizations, and collectives in attempts to serve communities that desire self-determination such as Trans Justice Funding Project, Transgender Law Center, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and more. Their work and thoughts have been published in media such as Vogue Magazine, them.us, ColorLines, Bitch, POOR Magazine, Curve magazine, Al Jazeera English, NYLON, Vogue, The Rumpus, Frontier Poetry, The Advocate, The Huffington Post, and PBS News Hour. Their first poetry collection, When The Chant Comes was published by Topside Press in 2016. Their second book, More Than Organs was published by Sibling Rivalry Press in the March 2020.