Born May 1: Trebor Healey

   

Last year Lambda announced Trebor Healey as an outstanding mid-career novelist and the next day he won his second Ferro-Grumley Award for his moving, road trip novel A Horse Named Sorrow [and Kindle], also a Lammy finalist and still not released in paperback. It was published in October 2012 simultaneously with his speculative YA novel Faun [and Kindle], about a boy whose changes at puberty are hairier and more pointed than yours were. Trebor won his first Ferro-Grumley, and a Violet Quill award, for Through It Came Bright Colors about 21-year-old suburban good boy Neill who breaks the stress of his family's struggles with his brother's cancer by sneaking into San Francisco for sex with men. Trebor's other books are Sweet Son of Pan, A Perfect Scar, and Queer and Catholic. His work is anthologized in many collections including Madder Love: Queer Men and the Precincts of Surrealism and multiple volumes of Best Gay Erotica: 2006, 2007, 2003, and 2004. Fifteen years before he was a PEN Emerging Voices mentor, he wrote a song for Pansy Division called Denny that foreshadows his fiction: smart, dark, quirky, angry, and funny. A West Coast child, he was born in San Francisco, grew up in Seattle, attended Berkeley, stayed in SF, spent a year in Buenos Aires, and now lives in Los Angeles.