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Valo Christiansen
Author · 6 books
Valo Christiansen is a genderqueer spoken-word artist, translator, and lecturer. Their texts, situated between poetry and prose, address feminism, queerness, disability, language, intersectionality, and anti-discrimination. Their work has appeared in several anthologies and collected volumes, including “Vielfalt – das andere Wörterbuch,” published by Duden Verlag. In 2024, Christiansen co-edited the anthology “Sonderzeichen” with Sam Sackbrook; it exclusively features contributions by trans, intersex, agender, and non-binary people. Christiansen won the Alemannischer Literaturpreis in 2021 and 2022 and reached the finals of the NRW Slam in 2022.