David Hatfield Sparks

David Hatfield Sparks (M.M., M.L.I.S.), currently living in San Francisco, is a writer, musician, and gay father who has been active in queer multicultural communities from the Midwest and Manhattan to Austin, Texas and San Francisco. 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), "Witches and Pagans" magazine (no. 29, 2015 & no. 34, 2017), and the anthologies "El Mundo Zurdo V," and "Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands" (Aunt Lute Books, 2017).

His essay, written with his husband Randy Conner, “And Revolution is Possible,” was included in the Lambda Books 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. He was recently awarded a writer’s residency in New Orleans by the “Good Judy Foundation, My Judy Residency” program in honor of the lesbian writer Judy Grahn. 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).