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Donna Troka

Donna

Donna Jean Troka is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts (ILA) at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She also does faculty development work for the University Advisory Council on Teaching (UACT) at Emory. Her dissertation is an oral history of three drag king troupes in the Midwest. She is a co-editor of The Drag King Anthology, which was a finalist in the Lambda Literary Awards and was given Honourable Mention for the CLAGS 2004 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies. Presently she lives in Brooklyn, New York with her partner Jes and their three cats Emily, Horace & Larry.