| kari edwards | |
| Birth Date: | 2 December 1954 |
| Birth Place: | Illinois |
| Death Place: | San Francisco, California |
| Nationality: | American |
| Education: | Naropa Institute[1] |
| Field: | Poetry, Sculpture, and Gender Activism |
| Partner: | Frances Blau |
kari edwards (December 2, 1954 – December 2, 2006)[2] was a poet, artist and gender activist. Her name is written all lowercase. She won the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award in literature (2002)[1] and posthumously won a Lambda Literary Award.
She authored having been blue for charity (BlazeVox: 2006); obedience (Factory School: 2005); iduna (O Books:2003); a day in the life of p (subpress collective: 2002); a diary of lies, Belladonna #27 (Belladonna Books: 2002); obLiqUE paRt(itON): colLABorationS (xPress(ed): 2002); and post/(pink) (Scarlet Press: 2000).
edwards's work has appeared in numerous publications, such as anthologies Blood and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard, Painted leaf Press (2000), and Electric Spandex: anthology of writing the queer text (Pyriform Press: 2002). Her works have also been exhibited throughout the U.S.
A posthumous book of edwards' poetry, succubus in my pocket, published in 2015 by EOAGH won a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in the category of Transgender Poetry.[3]
She died of a pulmonary embolism, aged 52, on December 2, 2006.[4]
