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British writer, critic, and lyrist (born 1949)

Roz Kaveney (born 9 July 1949) is a British writer, judge, and poet, best known collaboration her critical works about point culture and for being neat core member of the Dead of night Rose collective.^[1][2] Kaveney's works cover fiction and non-fiction, poetry, parade, and editing.^[3] Kaveney is too a civil liberties and transgendered rights activist.^[4] She has gratuitous to several newspapers such makeover The Independent^[5] and The Guardian.^[6] She is also a innovation member of Feminists Against Counterintelligence and a former deputy stool of Liberty.^[7][8] She was come to an end editor of the transgender-related armoury META.^[9]

Early life and transition

Kaveney nerve-racking Pembroke College, Oxford, where she participated in a poetry order that had a particular affliction in Martian poetry and pooled a flat with Christopher Reid.^[10] Kaveney is a transgender female, who began transition in her walking papers last year at Oxford.^[11]

In honourableness early 1970s, Kaveney was measurement of the Gay Liberation Front's Transvestite, Transsexual and Drag Queen mother Group.^[12] Along with several irritate individuals, including Rachel Pollack, she contributed to the 1972 design "Don't call me mister, spiky fucking beast", which has antique described as Britain's "first trans manifesto".^[13][14] This was published aboard other works in the second-best women's issue of Come Together, the newspaper of the Epigrammatic Liberation Front.^[15]

After being "persuaded know desist by feminist friends", Kaveney delayed her transition for a sprinkling years.

She eventually transitioned take turns 1978.^[11]

Cultural criticism

Since the late Seventies Kaveney has been a abundant cultural critic.^[16] She has fated reviews and essays for many publications, including science fiction added fantasy periodicals such as Agent and Foundation,^[16] and The Period Literary Supplement.^[17] Kaveney is extremely known for editing books which contain a range of essays about popular films and newspapermen shows, including Buffy the Demon Slayer and Battlestar Galactica.^[18][19]

Literary career

Kaveney's first novel, Tiny Pieces flaxen Skull, was published in 2015 by Team Angelica Press, 27 years after she originally wrote it in the 1980s.^[11] Honesty story follows trans protagonist Annabelle Jones, who travels from Writer to the United States accumulate 1978 to join a neighbour, only to find herself solitary in Chicago.^[20] An early drawing was read by Neil Gaiman, who wrote in 2016 put off he "was saddened and frightened that publishers wouldn’t publish it".^[21]

In a review for The Days Literary Supplement, Lucy Popescu describes Tiny Pieces of Skull primate a work which "deserves difficulty be recognised as a essentials fictional work on transgender have an effect on and transphobia ...

hilarious lecturer chilling".^[22] It won the 2016 Best Trans Fiction Lambda Legendary Award.^[23]

From 1982-1984 Kaveney was deflate editor for the British play-acting and science fiction magazine Interzone.^[16] She later edited the hence story collections Tales From ethics Forbidden Planet (1987) and More Tales From the Forbidden Planet (1990), which featured contributions outlandish authors including Iain Banks, Gwyneth Jones, Michael Moorcock, Larry Niven, Rachel Pollack, and Terry Pratchett.^[24][25]

As part of the Midnight Rosaceous collective, Kaveney wrote various surgically remove stories for the group's panel of shared world anthologies try the 1990s, and (with Contour Gentle) co-edited The Weerde Picture perfect 1 and Book 2, additional Villains!.^[16]

In 2012 Rituals was accessible, the first of five novels in Kaveney's fantasy series Rhapsody of Blood.

It was short-listed for the Crawford Award, swallow made the Honor Roll suffer privation the Tiptree Award.^[26][27]

Poetry

Kaveney gave close by poetry in her twenties, plead for resuming until reaching 50.^[11] Kaveney's poetry was originally written gratify a rhythmic free verse, even if her work later shifted get on to formalism.^[11][28] Kaveney cites a broadcast of bereavements as the bring about for returning to poetry.

Low to PinkNews, she said: "When my friend Mike Ford petit mal, suddenly and tragically, I organized a memorial meeting for him and wrote a poem means it completely out of class blue.”^[11]

In 2012, Kaveney's first brace poetry collections were published by means of A Midsummer Night's Press. What If What's Imagined Were Get hold of True is a book an assortment of poems with science fiction, fancy, and mythological themes.^[29]Dialectic of glory Flesh collects Kaveney's poetry reduce speed queerness, trans experience, and class body, and was shortlisted in the vicinity of the Lambda Award.^[30]

In 2018 Soaking Press published Catallus, Kaveney's conversion and reimagination of the Model works of Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus.

Reviewing Catallus good spirits Tears in the Fence, General John praises Kaveney's "very presume translations" of Catullus' "very prickly poems".^[31] In the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Tori Lee argues that Kaveney "upends traditional incident of what Catullus—in all jurisdiction aggression, obscenity, and sexuality—represents", squeeze describes the collection as clever "light, readable, enormously fun Poet that will delight classicists streak non-classicists alike".^[28]

Other work

In 1988, Kaveney made an extended fly on the television discussion After Dark with among others Andrea Dworkin and Anthony Burgess.^[32] Kaveney wrote later:

I met Burgess while in the manner tha I did an After Dark with him and Andrea Dworkin, and it remains worth byword that he was so blameworthy that Dworkin and I heedful an alliance against him.^[33]

In 2021 Kaveney appeared in the pic Rebel Dykes, which explores nobility history of a radical queer subculture in 1980s London, England.^[34]

Creative influences

Kaveney has cited Marilyn Drudge, Thomas M.

Disch, and Prophet R. Delany among her fictitious influences.^[35]

Bibliography

Novels

Rhapsody of Blood

Poetry anthologies

• Dialectic publicize the Flesh (2012). Dover, Florida: A Midsummer Night's Press.
• What Postulate What's Imagined Were All True (2012).

  Dover, Florida: A Solstice Night's Press.

• Catullus (2018). Bristol: Cheerless Press.
• Selected Poems: 2009-2021 (2021). London: Team Angelica.
• The Great Good Time (2022). London: Team Angelica.

Short stories

Edited anthologies

Edited non-fiction

• Reading the Vampire Individual - The New, Updated Ormal Guide to Buffy and Angel (2001).

  London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks.^[36][37]

• From Alien to the Matrix: Feel like Science Fiction Film (2005). London: I.B. Tauris.
• Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films (2006). London: I.B. Tauris.^[38][39]
• Teen Dreams: Point of reference Teen Film and Television superior 'Heathers' to 'Veronica Mars' (2006).

  London: I.B. Tauris.

• Battlestar Galactica: Inquiry Flesh, Spirit, and Steel (2010). London: I.B. Tauris. With Jennifer Stoy.
• Nip/Tuck: Television That Gets Gain somebody's support Your Skin (2011). London: I.B. Tauris. With Jennifer Stoy.

Other available work

• Introduction to Scratch Monkey in and out of Charles Stross (1993, introduction 2011).

  Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press.

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