Salem West
Salem West is the publisher of Bywater Books. She brings a strong background in business management, and longstanding engagement with the LGBT community. In recent years, she has become known as the voice of The Rainbow Reader, a highly successful review blog that...
Carol Rosenfeld
Carol Rosenfeld is an accomplished short fiction writer and poet. The One That Got Away, published by Bywater Books in June 2015, is the first novel by this writer who describes herself as “A fruit cup in the whole-grain world of literary fiction.” A Juris Doctor (she...
Baxter Clare Trautman
Baxter Clare Trautman, is the author of the Lambda Literary finalist L.A. Franco mystery series. In June of 2015, she released Hold of the Bone, the latest Lt. L.A. Franco mystery, through Bywater Books. She also wrote the award winning The River Within, and Spirit of...
Julie Marie Wade
For her first book, Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures, Julie Marie Wade won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir. Reviewers praised its “poetic” qualities – no surprise, perhaps, for Julie is also a poet whose work has been nominated several times for the...
Ann McMan
ANN McMAN is the author of twelve novels and two short story collections. She is a two-time Lambda Literary Award recipient, a five-time Independent Publisher (IPPY) medalist, a Foreword Reviews INDIES medalist, and a laureate of the Alice B. Foundation for her...
