Keath Silva is a trans poet, healing arts practitioner and the author of two self-published poetry collections, Lady Death and other Poems Venerating Change (2021) and King Crone and The Empty Nest (2023). Silva’s work has been featured in songs by Figgy and Alana Balagot alongside the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles. Award-winning UK trans musician Amity Miller adapted Silva’s poems into lyrics in his songs. Silva’s poems were the centerpiece for Masks and Metamorphosis a tribute to the trans community by the fifty-piece orchestra, The Gay Freedom Band of Los Angeles. Along with their work being featured in the trans youth advocacy educator’s handbook, “The Advocate Educator,” Silva’s books have been used in high school and college Transgender Studies curriculum throughout the US and UK. Silva’s mission is to give authentic voice to the transgender experience and provide a nourishing landscape for gender liberation and collective trauma healing. Silva offers a variety of healing sessions, poetry readings and workshops in Los Angeles and Oregon where they dance, garden, hike and enjoy time with friends and family.
