co-edited Best Lesbian Erotica 1999 with Tristan Taormino. Chrystos' awards and honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Human Rights Freedom of Expression Award, the Sappho Award of Distinction from the Astrea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, a Barbara Deming Grant, and the Audre Lorde International Poetry Competition. Chrystos' activism has focused on efforts to free Norma Jean Croy and Leonard Peltier, and the rights of tribes such as the Diné (Navajo) and Mohawk people. In a 2010 interview with Black Coffee Poet, Chrystos described their social justice interests as "diverse," citing abortion, wife-battering, and prisoner issues, although they acknowledge these issues are of "no immediate benefit" to them. Bibliography This Bridge Called My Back (anthology) Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1981; contributor Not Vanishing, Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1988, Dream On, Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1991 In Her I Am, Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1993 Fugitive Colors, Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1995, Fire Power, Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1995, Some Poems by People I Like (anthology of 5 poets; Sandra Alland, editor) Toronto: SandrasLittleBookshop, 2007, ; contributor Best Lesbian Erotica 1999, Cleis Press, 1999, ; co-editor See also Native American studies Lesbian poetry References Bealy, Joanne. "An Interview with Chrystos"; Off Our Backs, Vol. 33, September 2003, p. 11 E. Centime Zeleke. "Speaking about Language". Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1996, pp. 33–35. Retter, Yolanda. "Chrystos". Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America, Vol. 1. Edited by Marc Stein. Detroit: Scribner's; 2004, pp. 214–215, "Chrystos", biographical entry at the Voices in the Gaps database of the University of Minnesota; 2009. (PDF download from the target page.) External links 1946 births Living people American lesbian writers American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent American prostitutes Writers from San Francisco Writers from Bainbridge Island, Washington American LGBT poets LGBT people from Washington (state) American women poets 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers Non-binary activists 21st-century LGBT people American non-binary writers