Amber Dawn

Amber Dawn's latest poetry collection flaunts the chronically pained body as a source of lewd feminine powerAs a novelist, memoirist, and poet, Amber Dawn regularly lays her heart bare in work that is fiery, raw, and intensely personal. In Buzzkill Clamshell, her third poetry collection, Amber Dawn circumvents the expectations of so-called confessional poetry, offering twisted mythmaking, extreme hyperbole, and lyrical gutter-mouthing that explore themes of sick and disabled queerness, aging, and desire.With poems populated by severed heads, domme swan maidens, horny oracles, and other horrible purveyors of pleasure, Buzzkill Clamshell reads as if a leather dyke and a demonic goat had a baby―gleefully embracing the perverse while stomping its way through chronic pain and complex PTSD.Already acclaimed for her candid and often kinky verse, Amber Dawn pushes further into trauma-informed eroticism with self-assured irreverence and uncomfortable abjectivity. Beneath her brilliant, carnivalesque imagery lies a prayer―not for the pain to end, but for finding fantastic new ways to cope with it.

It's the summer of 1990 and Crystal Beach has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village a virtual ghost town. It is back to this fallen community that Starla Mia Martin must return to live with her overbearing mother after dropping out of university and racking up significant debt. But an economic downturn, mother-daughter drama, and Generation X disillusionment soon prove to be to be the least of Starla's troubles. A mysterious and salacious force begins to dog her; inexplicable sounds in the night and indescribable sights spotted in the periphery. Soon enough, Starla must confront the unresolved traumas that haunt Crystal Beach. Sodom Road Exit might read like a conventional paranormal thriller, except that Starla is far from a conventional protagonist. Where others might feel fear, Starla feels lust and queer desire. When others might run, Starla draws the horror nearer. And in turn, she draws a host of capricious characters toward her--all of them challenged to seek answers beyond their own temporal realities. Sodom Road Exit, the second novel by Lambda Literary Award winner Amber Dawn, is a book that's alive with both desire and dread.

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalistAward-winning novelist and memoirist Amber Dawn reveals a gutsy lyrical sensibility in her debut poetry collection: a collection of glosa poems written as an homage to and an interaction with queer poets such as Gertrude Stein, Christina Rossetti, and Adrienne Rich. By doing so, Dawn delves deeper into the themes of trauma, memory, and unblushing sexuality that define her work.Amber Dawn is the author of the Lambda Award-winning novel Sub Rosa and the memoir How Poetry Saved My Life (winner of the Vancouver Book Award). Her other awards include the Writers' Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize.

WHY IS THE INTENSITY OF LIFE INCREASING? A rewarding lifetime of travel, research and deep inner inquiry culminates in this powerful book on ourselves and our world: life, love, and the offer of expansion. Amber Dawn is a world citizen, a humanitarian, and a visionary. In her fascinating story she shares the eye-opening events that led her to a deeper understanding of our reality. Entertaining, informative and heart-opening, this empowering book answers the core questions of our times. What changes are we going through, and why? How to go smoothly with the accelerating flow and align with our life's purpose? What is our potential, what is our inner being? How to tune into guidance and find peace of heart?" WE EACH HAVE OUR OWN PATH, YET WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME JOURNEY. Joining science and spiritual wisdom, Amber illuminates the interconnected and hence interactive nature of our world. Seeing how life has always guided our awakening frees our hearts from doubt, blame, hurt and fear, and sparks a powerful shift of feeling that greatly influences what we attract. As we thus strengthen our very foundation of self love and trust, we prepare ourselves to step up to a fully new level of human existence. We are each a part of humanity's Awakening. NONE OF US GOT HERE BY MISTAKE. Amber's broad experience and down-to-earth style combine to make profound spiritual insight accessible, personal and inspirational. It thus guides and steadies us through these rapidly evolving times, empowering us with greater trust, love, joy and peace of mind towards a new world of our conscious joint creation. "Our relationship to ourselves is a key factor because we are a bridge: it is through our fundamental inner relationship that we each facilitate the light of consciousness, the light of love, to become increasingly present in our world."