Trebor Healey Explained

Trebor Healey
Birth Place:	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet, novelist
Genre:	poetry, short stories, LGBT

Trebor Healey is an American poet and novelist. He was born in San Francisco, raised in Seattle, and studied English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He spent his twenties in San Francisco, where he was active in the spoken word scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, publishing five chapbooks of poetry as well as numerous poems and short stories in various reviews, journals,^[1] anthologies and zines.

He is openly gay^[2] and is currently living in Los Angeles.^[3]

Bibliography

Novels

• Through It Came Bright Colors, 2003 (Haworth Press,)
• Faun, 2012 (Lethe Press,)
• A Horse Named Sorrow, 2012 (University of Wisconsin Press,)

Short stories

• A Perfect Scar and Other Stories, 2007 (Haworth Press,)
• Eros & Dust, 2016 (Lethe Press,)
• Falling, 2019 (University of Wisconsin Press,)

Poetry

• Sweet Son of Pan, 2006 (Suspect Thoughts Press,)

Anthologies

• Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, 1994 (Manic D Press,). Co-editor with Marci Blackman.
• Queer and Catholic, 2008 (Taylor & Francis,). Co-editor with Amie Evans.^[4]

Awards

In 2004, Through It Came Bright Colors won both the Ferro-Grumley Award and the Violet Quill Award,^[5] and Gay Today named it one of the ten best novels of 2003. He won a second Ferro-Grumley Award in 2013 for A Horse Named Sorrow.

Healey's short story "The Mercy Seat" was named one of the top 10 stories of 2004 in the storySouth Million Writers Awards.

He was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2013.^[6]

External links

• Trebor Healey

Notes and References

1. http://lodestarquarterly.com/
2. Book: Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction. Cleis Press. 2009. Timothy J.. Lambert. R. D.. Cochrane. 978-1-57344-339-5. registration.
3. Web site: AMBIENTE MAGAZINE REVISTA LGBT LATINO HISPANIC . www.ambiente.us . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111003123729/http://www.ambiente.us/09009Trebor.html . 2011-10-03.
4. Web site: It's Raining Amens.
5. Web site: Contributors - Lodestar Quarterly.
6. http://www.lambdaliterary.org/foundation-updates/04/24/outstanding-mid-career-novelist-and-emerging-writer-winners-announced/ "Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist and Emerging Writer Winners Announced"