Trebor Healey

Trebor Healey (b. May 1, 1962) is an American poet and novelist. He was born in San Francisco, raised in Seattle, and studied English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He spent his twenties in San Francisco, where he was active in the spoken word scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, publishing five chapbooks of poetry as well as numerous poems and short stories in various reviews, journals,^[1] anthologies and zines.

Trebor Healey
Born	(1962-05-01) May 1, 1962 (age 63) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Occupation	Poet, novelist
Genre	poetry, short stories, LGBT
Website
www.treborhealey.com

He is openly gay^[2] and is currently living in Los Angeles.^[3]

Bibliography

Novels

• Through It Came Bright Colors, 2003 (Haworth Press, ISBN 978-1-56023-452-4)
• Faun, 2012 (Lethe Press, ISBN 978-1-59021-385-8)
• A Horse Named Sorrow, 2012 (University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0299289706)^[4]

Short stories

• A Perfect Scar and Other Stories, 2007 (Haworth Press, ISBN 978-1-60864-000-3)
• Eros & Dust, 2016 (Lethe Press, ISBN 978-1590216521)
• Falling, 2019 (University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 978-0299324704)

Poetry

• Sweet Son of Pan, 2006 (Suspect Thoughts Press, ISBN 978-0-9771582-1-8)

Anthologies

• Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, 1994 (Manic D Press, ISBN 978-0-916397-30-2). Co-editor with Marci Blackman.
• Queer and Catholic, 2008 (Taylor & Francis, ISBN 978-1-56023-713-6). Co-editor with Amie Evans.^[5]

Awards

In 2004, Through It Came Bright Colors won both the Ferro-Grumley Award and the Violet Quill Award,^[4][6] and Gay Today named it one of the ten best novels of 2003. He won a second Ferro-Grumley Award in 2013 for A Horse Named Sorrow.

Healey's short story "The Mercy Seat" was named one of the top 10 stories of 2004 in the storySouth Million Writers Awards.

He was awarded the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2013.^[7]

References

1. "Homepage". Lodestar Quarterly. Archived from the original on May 27, 2025. Retrieved July 23, 2025.
2. Lambert, Timothy J.; Cochrane, R. D. (2009). Fool for Love: New Gay Fiction. Cleis Press. ISBN 978-1-57344-339-5.
3. Vazquez, Charlie (September 2009). "Queer and Catholic". AMBIENTE MAGAZINE. Archived from the original on October 3, 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2025.
4. Edwards-Stout, Kergan (December 7, 2012). "Trebor Healey, acclaimed gay author, surprises with two new novels". Huffpost. Archived from the original on June 17, 2021. Retrieved July 23, 2025.
5. Vogel, Traci (August 6, 2008). "It's Raining Amens". SF Weekly. Archived from the original on June 10, 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2025.
6. "Contributors". Lodestar Quarterly. Archived from the original on March 1, 2012.
7. Valenzuela, Tony (April 24, 2013). "Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist and Emerging Writer Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. Archived from the original on June 13, 2013. Retrieved July 23, 2025.

External links

• Trebor Healey