Kay Ulanday Barrett
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Jordan talks with poet/performer/advocate Kay Ulanday Barrett about their decision to get top surgery, the intersection of family and food, and writing through health crises.
MENTIONED:
- Grey\\u2019s Anatomy
- Swype
- The Asian American Writers Workshop
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Kay Ulanday Barrett aka @Brownroundboi is a poet, performer, and cultural strategist. Their second book,\\xa0More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have received residencies from Tin House as a 2022 Next Book Winner as well as\\xa0MacDowell as a 2020 James Baldwin Fellow. Other residencies include:\\xa0Drunken Boat, VONA Voices, Monson Arts, and The Lambda Literary Review. Barrett is a three-time Pushcart Prize Nominee and two-time Best of the Net Nominee. They have featured at The United Nations, The Lincoln Center, Symphony Space, Brooklyn Museum, Princeton, Harvard, Columbia University, Northwestern, The School of the Art Institute, & more.\\xa0Their contributions are found in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Poetry Magazine, them., Colorlines, Al Jazeera, NYLON, Vogue, The Rumpus, to name a few. Currently, they remix their mama\\u2019s recipes and live in Jersey City with their jowly dog.\\xa0kaybarrett.net
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