Amber Dawn is the author of the novels Sodom Road Exit (2018) and Sub Rosa (winner of a Lambda Literary Award, 2010), the Vancouver Book Award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life (2013), the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize-nominated poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins (2015). She is also editor of Fist of the Spider Woman: Tales of Fear and Queer Desire and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn. She teaches creative writing at Douglas College in Vancouver, and also leads several low-barrier community writing classes.

Best Sex Writing 2012: The State of Today's Sexual Culture
2012
ISBN 9781573447591
Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life After Sexual Assault
2019
ISBN 9781771643733
Fist of the Spider Woman
2009
ISBN 9781458760814
Hustling Verse
2019
ISBN 9781551527819