Amber Dawn is the author of the novels Sodom Road Exit and Sub Rosa, the Vancouver Book Award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life, and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize-nominated poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins. She is the editor of Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. Amber Dawn has won a Lambda Literary Award and the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers. She teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and leads several low-barrier community writing classes.