Anthony
Oliveira
Anthony Oliveira is an award-winning author, film programmer, and pop culture critic. He has won three National Magazine Awards and two GLAAD Awards for his writing, which often incorporates queer themes and spans comics, prose, journalism, and academic research. Oliveira is a frequent contributor to Marvel Comics and his work can be found in Young Avengers, X-Men, and Captain Marvel. He is currently working on his PhD and lives in Toronto.
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“Ambitiously and audaciously, Anthony Oliveira transforms scripture into a poetic and erotic queer love story. Dayspring crosses centuries and genres, bends fan fiction into dazzling verse, and mixes the sacred and the profane with the sublime and the perverse. In a sly nod to red letter bibles, Oliveira uses blood-coloured ink to render the words of Jesus, who emerges as fallible and playful, horny and tender. With the heft of a tome, the lure of a page-turner, and the sweep of an epic poem, Dayspring is an effervescent and poignant work about love and humanity.” — 2024 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers jury (Jillian Christmas, Adam Garnet Jones, and Hazel Jane Plante)
