Vivek Shraya wins Publishing Triangle Award for even this page is white

Vivek Shraya's poetry collection even this page is white has been recognized with the Publishing Triangle Award for trans and gender-variant writers.

The award comes with a $1,000 prize.

• How Vivek Shraya turned lived racism into poetry

even this page is white is Shraya's debut poetry collection. It was on the longlist for Canada Reads 2017 and is currently nominated for a Lambda Literary Award.

In the collection, Shraya explores her experience as a person of colour growing up in Canada.

• Vivek Shraya on the necessary risks of queer writing

The Triangle Awards annually honour LGBTQ literature across seven categories.

Shraya was the sole Canadian winner in 2017. The other winners were:

• The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ fiction: They May Not Mean To, But They Do by Cathleen Schine
• The Edmund White Award for debut fiction: Jazz Moon by Joe Okonkwo
• The Thom Gunn Award for gay poetry: Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
• The Audre Lorde Award for lesbian poetry: play dead by Francine J. Harris
• The Judy Grahn Award for lesbian nonfiction: Conflict is Not Abuse by Sarah Schulman
• The Randy Shilts Award for gay nonfiction: How to Survive a Plague by David France