Roz Kaveney

Roz Kaveney

Roz Kaveney, 14 April 2007, by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
Born (1949-07-09) 9 July 1949
Occupation Writer and editor
Nationality United Kingdom
Website
glamourousrags.dymphna.net

Roz Kaveney (born 9 July 1949) is a British writer, critic, and poet, best known for her critical works about pop culture and for being a core member of the Midnight Rose collective.[1][2] Kaveney's works include fiction and non-fiction, poetry, reviewing, and editing.[3]

Biography

Kaveney attended Pembroke College, Oxford, where she participated in a poetry group that had a particular interest in Martian poetry and shared a flat with Christopher Reid. At the time, Pembroke only admitted men, and Kaveney was then still living as a man. She gave up poetry in her twenties, not resuming it until she reached her sixties. Kaveney's poetry was originally written in a rhythmic free verse, although her work later shifted into formalism. For a time she earned a living as a sex worker and in later years has worked as a transgender rights activist.[4]

On her website Roz says: "I was reared Catholic but got over it, was born male but got over it, stopped sleeping with boys about the time I stopped being one and am much happier than I was when I was younger."

Kaveney has contributed to several newspapers such as The Independent and The Guardian. She is also a founding member of Feminists Against Censorship and a former deputy chair of Liberty. She is deputy editor of the transgender-related magazine META.

In 1988 she made an extended appearance on the television discussion After Dark with among others Andrea Dworkin and Anthony Burgess.

Dialectic of the Flesh was shortlisted for the Lambda Award; Rituals - Rhapsody of Blood, Volume One was short-listed for the Crawford Award, and made the Honor Roll for the Tiptree Award.

Tiny Pieces of Skull 'deserves to be recognised as a seminal fictional work on transgender identity and transphobia... hilarious and chilling...' Times Literary Supplement, 24 July 2015.[5] It won the 2016 Best Trans Fiction Lambda Literary Award.[6]

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "SURVEYOR OF THE SUPERHEROES: KAVENEY TALKS NEW BOOK". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  2. ↑ Taylor, Laurie. "Superheroes - Ribbon Culture". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  3. ↑ Jackson, Stevi (1998). Contemporary Feminist Theories. Edinburgh University Press. p. 120. ISBN 0748606890.
  4. ↑ "META magazine: the sex issue". Gay Times. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  5. ↑ http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/multimedia/archive/01164/contents_1164760a.pdf
  6. ↑ http://www.lambdaliterary.org/features/news/06/07/28th-annual-lammy-award-winners-announced/
  7. ↑ Guiley, Rosemary (2004). The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves and Other Monsters. Checkmark Books. p. 7. ISBN 0816046859.
  8. ↑ "Booklist Review: Reading the Vampire Slayer". Booklist. Retrieved 19 October 2012.
  9. ↑ GRAVETT, PAUL (13 June 2008). "Kirby: king of comics, by Mark Evanier; Superheroes!, by Roz Kaveney". London: Independent. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  10. ↑ Keen, Tony. "Superheroes! by Roz Kaveney". Strange Horizons. Retrieved 19 October 2012.


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