Poetry: “I Only Feel Jealous When I Watch Queens Get Out of Drag” by Kanika Lawton

I Only Feel Jealous When I Watch Queens Get Out of Drag

About Kanika Lawton

Kanika Lawton is a Cambodian-Chinese Canadian writer, editor, and film scholar. They are a PhD student at the University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute and the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, where they are also a graduate research assistant with the Queer and Trans Research Lab. A multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net-nominated writer, they have been published in Longleaf Review, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Vagabond City Literary Journal, Cosmonauts Avenue, and Parentheses Journal, among others. They are the author of four micro-chapbooks, most recently Theories on Wreckage (Ghost City Press, 2020). Born and raised in Vancouver, they now live and work in Toronto.