Red Jordan Arobateau Author

Red Jordan Arobateau (1943-2021) was a prolific fiction writer, poet, playwright, diarist, and visual artist. Over the course of his life, Arobateau produced over 60 paintings and 80 literary works, many of which reflect his experiences as a mixed-race, trans/dyke member of the underclass. Arobateau’s writing has been anthologized in Out from Under: Sober Dykes and Our Friends (1983), Daughters of Africa (1992), and Whores and Other Feminists (1997), among other publications, and at least seven of his books of erotic fiction were published by Richard Kasak Books in the 1990s. Born in Chicago, Arobateau lived the majority of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently An Optimism (Persea Books, 2025), as well as The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke University Press, 2022). His writing has been supported by fellowships from Cave Canem, the Lannan Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. Presently, he is an associate professor in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.