Amber Dawn is a writer and creative facilitator living on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, BC). She is the author of six books: two novels, the Lambda Literary Award winner Sub Rosa (2010) and Sodom Road Exit (2018); three poetry collections, Where the words end and my body begins (2015), My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems (2020) and Buzzkill Clamshell (2025); and the Vancouver Book Award winner How Poetry Saved My Life, A Hustler’s Memoir (2013). She is the editor of three anthologies, including Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry (2019), co-ed. Justin Ducharme