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Georgia Beers  Georgia Beers

Georgia Beers just wants “to become the best writer I can be.” She already has a Lambda Literary Award and a Golden Crown Literary Society Award to her name, and is one of the best-selling authors of lesbian romance. But from the start she | More


Sally Bellerose  Sally Bellerose

Sally Bellerose was awarded a Fellowship in Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts based on an excerpt from her upcoming book, The Girls Club. The manuscript was a finalist for the James Jones Fellowship, the Thomas Wolfe Fiction | More


Kate Clinton  Kate Clinton

A self-described fumerist (feminist/humorist), Kate taught high school English for eight years before leaving the virtue of the classroom for the vice of the stage. Using politics, Catholicism, and her lesbianism as basic themes she performs | More


Lindy Cameron  Lindy Cameron

Lindy Cameron lives on Victoria’s beautiful Mornington Peninsula outside Melbourne, Australia. An avid golfer, she is determined to play every one of the three hundred and seventy-six courses in the State at least once.  More


Cynn Chadwick  Cynn Chadwick

Cynn Chadwick was born and raised in New Jersey but has lived in the South for over twenty years. Her third novel in the Cat Rising trilogy, Babies, Bikes, and Broads, was published in October 2009 by Bywater Books. Earning both an MA in literature | More


Marianne K. Martin  Marianne K. Martin

Marianne K. Martin is one of the best-selling lesbian romance authors in the country and her books have gained a wide international readership. Her highly successful novels include the Lambda Literary Award finalists Under the Witness Tree, | More


Stella Duffy  Stella Duffy

Stella Duffy was born in London, grew up in Tokoroa, New Zealand, and has lived back in London since 1986. She is married to the writer Shelley Silas.  More


Val McDermid  Val McDermid

Val McDermid grew up in a Scottish mining community and read English at Oxford. She was a journalist for 16 years before turning to writing full-time. Her bestselling novels have been translated into over 30 languages.  More


Elana Dykewomon  Elana Dykewomon

Elana Dykewomon is an activist, an author, and a teacher and has a fiercely dedicated readership who have been eagerly awaiting her next novel for a dozen years.  More


Z Egloff  Z Egloff

Z Egloff was born in California, raised in the Midwest, and schooled (academically and otherwise) in Amherst, Massachusetts, and on Cape Cod.  More


Marcia Finical  Marcia Finical

Marcia Finical was born and raised in Seattle and lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her dog and two cats. She thanks Anita Bryant for pushing her out of the closet 30 years ago. Marcia is currently working on her new novel, which has | More


Katherine V. Forrest  Katherine V. Forrest

Katherine V. Forrest thinks that there’s something about a 40th birthday that focuses the mind. At least, that’s how it worked for her. She’d always wanted to write a book. So at 40, spurred on by her partner, she did.  More


Lisa Gitlin  Lisa Gitlin

Lisa Gitlin grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Her father was a newspaperman and she always knew she wanted to be a writer.  More


Jill Malone  Jill Malone

Jill Malone is, surprizingly, an accountant. Let’s face it: no one expects accountants to be able to write. Let alone write a book described as “terrific” (Jess Walter), “wonderfully impressive” (Sarah Waters),  More


Bett Norris  Bett Norris

Bett Norris, born and raised in Alabama a few short miles from the place where Harper Lee did the same, followed in the footsteps of her idol and inspiration by attending the University of Alabama, somehow managing to graduate with a degree | More


Joan Opyr  Joan Opyr

Joan Opyr is a writer and editor living in Moscow, Idaho. Idaho Code is her first novel.  More


Mari SanGiovanni  Mari SanGiovanni

Mari SanGiovanni lives in Rhode Island not very far from her perfect Italian family. Her first novel, Greetings from Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer, was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award  More