Even This Page is White by Vivek Shraya

Even This Page is White by Vivek Shraya

Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature winner

Lambda Literary Award finalist

Longlisted for Canada Reads

As a writer, musician, performance artist, and filmmaker, Vivek Shraya has, over the course of the last few years, established herself as a tour de force artist of the highest order. Vivek's bodyof work includes ten albums, four short films, and three books, including the YA book God Loves Hair (A Quill and Quire and Canadian Children's Book Centre Best Book of the Year) and the adult novel She of the Mountains (a Lambda Literary Award finalist).

Vivek's debut collection of poetry, even this page is white, is a bold, timely, and personal interrogation of skin--its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding ofwhat it means to be racialized. Shraya paints the face of everyday racism with words, rendering it visible, tangible, and undeniable.

Vivek Shraya is a writer, musician, performer, and filmmaker from India. He has been shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Awards three times, and his prior works include the novel Woman of the Mountains and the YA novel God Loves Hair. He has performed and read at events, festivals, and post-secondary schools all around the world.