Jamaican-born FIONA ZEDDE (www.fionazedde.com) lives and writes in Tampa, Florida. She is the author of several erotic lesbian romance novels, including the Lambda Literary Award finalists Bliss and Every Dark Desire. Her novel, Dangerous Pleasures, was winner of the About.com Readers’ Choice Award for Best Lesbian Novel/Memoir. Nightshade, her latest work, is available now.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
JEWELLE GOMEZ is the author of seven books including the cult favorite lesbian vampire novel, The Gilda Stories, winner of two Lambda Literary Awards. Her most recent play, “Waiting for Giovanni,” premiered at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco in 2011. Her new novel, Televised, is looking for a publisher.
KATHLEEN WARNOCK is a playwright and editor. Her erotica has appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica, A Woman’s Touch, Best Lesbian Romance and Friction 7. Her fiction, essays and reviews have been seen in Love, Christopher Street; ROCK-RGRL ; BUST; Ms.; Metal Maidens; It’s Only Rock and Roll; Gargoyle and the liner notes for the Joan Jett CD Unfinished Business. Her plays have been produced in New York, Ireland and England, and regionally in the United States. Rock the Line was produced by Emerging Artists Theatre in New York and won the Robert Chesley Award for Emerging Playwright. She is curator of the Robert Chesley / Jane Chambers Playwrights Project for TOSOS Theater, and Playwrights Company Manager for Emerging Artists Theatre. She is Ambassador of Love for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival and a member of the Dramatists Guild. She curates the Drunken! Careening! Writers! reading series at KGB Bar in NYC (since 2004). Website: kathleenwarnock.com; Twitter: @kwarnockny.
Copyright © 2012 by Kathleen Warnock.
Introduction copyright © 2012 by Jewelle Gomez.
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“Pool Party,” by Zoe Amos, was published as an ebook on Amazon Kindle (2011); “Daffodils,” by Sally Bellerose, was published in Pillowtalk (Alyson, 1998) and Ripe Fruit (Cleis Press, 2002); “Lessons for Leona,” by Tenille Brown, was published on Oysters & Chocolate (2011); “Stella Loves Bella,” by V. C. Clark, was published on Oysters & Chocolate (2008); “Winner Take All,” by Andrea Dale, was published in The Harder She Comes (Cleis Press, 2012); “Underskirts,” by Kirsty Logan, was published in The Winners Bridport Prize 2010 (Redcliffe Press, 2011); “La Caída,” by Anna Meadows, was published in Girls Who Bite (Cleis Press, 2011); a flash fiction version of “The Invitation,” by Maggie Veness, titled “Letter Under the Door,” was published in In My Bed magazine (2010); “Crave,” by Fiona Zedde, was published as “Dreamtime” in Best Lesbian Romance 2007 (Cleis Press, 2007).
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