David Hatfield Sparks is a writer, teacher, musician, and gay father who has been active in queer multicultural communities from the Midwest and Manhattan to Austin, Texas, and San Francisco. His publications with his long-time companion-husband Randy P. Conner (1952-2022) were nominated for Lambda Awards. His poems and essays have appeared in spiritual, feminist, and LGBTQ publications, including the anthologies First Person Queer: Who we are so far (2007), She Is Everywhere (vol. 3, 2012), El Mundo Zurdo V (Aunt Lute Books, 2016), and Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute Books, 2017).
His essay, written with his late husband Randy Conner (1952-2022), “And Revolution is Possible,” was included in the Lambda Book Award winning anthology, This Bridge We Call Home (2002). His books on LGBTQ studies, co-authored with his husband, Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions (2004), and Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit (1997), were also nominated for Lambda Awards.
His poetry book Princes and Pumpkins won 1st Prize in the 2015 Writer’s Digest Poetry Self-Published e-Book Awards, and he was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Saints and Sinners Fiction Contest with his short story “A Little Death in Naples”. His poem “To Ambi Sextrous, Judy Garland, with apologies to Frédéric Chopin” was published in ArLiLo: the Arlington literary journal (Issue 184, 2023).You can sign up to get updates about their writing here.
David Hatfield Sparks is a writer, teacher, musician, and gay father who has been active in queer multicultural communities from the Midwest and Manhattan to Austin, Texas, and San Francisco. His publications with his long-time companion-husband Randy P. Conner (1952-2022) were nominated for Lambda Awards. His poems and essays have appeared in spiritual, feminist, and LGBTQ publications, including the anthologies First Person Queer: Who we are...
