Kari edwards
kari edwards (December 2, 1954 – December 2, 2006) was a poet, artist and gender activist. Her name is written all lowercase. She won the New Langton Arts Bay Area Award in literature (2002) and posthumously won a Lambda Literary Award. She authored "have been blue for charity" (BlazeVox: 2006); "obedience" (Factory School: 2005); "iduna" (O Books: 2003); "a day in the life of p" (subpress collective: 2002); "a diary of lies", Belladonna #27 (Belladonna Books: 2002); "obLiqUE paRt(itON): colLABorationS" (xPress(ed): 2002); and "post/(pink)" (Scarlet Press: 2000). Edwards's work has appeared in numerous publications, such as anthologies "Blood  and Tears: Poems for Matthew Shepard", Painted leaf Press (2000), and "Electric Spandex: anthology of writing the queer text" (Pyriform Press: 2002). Her works have also been exhibited throughout the U.S. A posthumous book of edwards's poetry, "succubus in my pocket", published in 2015 by EOAGH won a 2016 Lambda Literary Award in the category of Transgender Poetry. Death. She died of pulmonary embolism, aged 52, on December 2, 2006.