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Explore Our Worlds
Catalog
The Queer Women of Color books that you will explore throughout this catalog have been written from their hearts with you in mind. We tell your stories, we celebrate your victories, and we mourn your sorrows. You have found your home and will never be alone.
Kianna Alexander is like any good Southern belle, she wears many hats: doting mama, advice-dispensing sister, fun aunt and gabbing girlfriend. She's a voracious reader, an amateur seamstress and occasional painter in oils.
Stephanie Andrea Allen, Ph.D., is a native southerner, writer, scholar, and educator. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at IU-Bloomington, co-directs a literary non-profit for Black women writers, and is publisher and editor-in-chief at BLF Press.
Renair Amin is an award-winning educator, international speaker, coach, pageant queen, and four-time published author specializing in the areas of relationship wellness, empowerment, and LGBTQ faith-based trauma.
O'Jay Barr is a new breakthrough author and enjoys writing in the lesbian drama/romance genre. When not writing she loves to travel, bake and spend time with her wife, daughters and grand babies. O'Jay is a Trenton, NJ native currently residing in Atlanta, GA.
Samiya Bashir, called a “dynamic, shape-shifting machine of perpetual motion,” by Diego Báez, writing for Booklist, is a writer, librettist, performer, and multi-media poetry maker whose work, both solo and collaborative, has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, experienced, and Oxford comma’d from Berlin to Düsseldorf, Amsterdam to Accra, Florence to Rome and across the United States.
S. Renée Bess, a Philadelphia native, is a former Spanish and French teacher who has been writing for most of her life. In 1994, her short story, "At the Beauty Parlor," won first place in a literary contest sponsored by Labyrinth Newspaper. Following that honor, two pieces of her short fiction were included in the Canadian LGBT anthologies, "Piece of My Heart" and "Ma-Ka: Diasporic Juks."
Sharon Bridgforth is a 2023 United States Artists Fellow, 2022 Winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, Sharon Bridgforth is 2020-2023 Playwrights’ Center Core Member, a 2022-2024 McKnight National Fellow and a New Dramatists alumnae. A Doris Duke Performing Artist she has received support from Creative Capital, MAP Fund and the National Performance Network. Her work is featured in: Volume 110, No. 4, Winter 2022 of The Yale Review; Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature; Mouths of Rain an Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought; and Feminist Studies Vol 48 Number 1, honoring 40 years of This Bridge Called by Back and But Some of Us Are Brave! Sharon's bull-jean & dem/dey back and All These Things: A Conversation by Sharon Bridgforth & Daniel Alexander Jones are published by 53rd State Press. AdeRisa Productions produced the 2023 bull-jean & dem/dey back L.A. Book Party Documentary directed by Adelina Anthony. Sharon is an Associate Company Member at Pillsbury House + Theatre (PHT) in Minneapolis, MN. PHT produced mainstage productions of Sharon’s work in 2022 & 2023.
Laurinda D. Brown is a native Memphian and graduate of Howard University. Laurinda has been called a “literary juggernaut” by journalists and a “uniquely gifted storyteller” by critics.
Drea C is a romance author writing in several subgenres of romance, including Paranormal Romance, Contemporary, and Fantasy Romance. No matter the subgenre, Drea enjoys putting a little love and spice into each story. She publishes romance novels as well as serial fiction with Kindle Vella.
Lauren Cherelle uses her time and talents to traverse imaginary and professional worlds. She manages Resolute Publishing, an independent publisher that helps transform dreams into realities for women of color writers.
Cheryl N. Clarke is born in Toronto, raised in Miami and now living in Puebla, Mexico. She is the author of five novels, two stage plays, several short stories and poetry collections, and numerous children's books. She has been featured in Curve Magazine, the nation's best-selling lesbian magazine, VoyageATL, The Princeton Packet, Philadelphia Gay News (PGN), About.com, Out IN Jersey, Burlington County Times, as well as Phillyburbs.com, among others. Clarke is also an executive ghostwriter and the woman behind PhenomenalWriting.com. She has written for Fortune 500 executives and entrepreneurs worldwide.
Ava Freeman is a writer of contemporary romance that centers the Black queer woman’s experience. Through her stories, she strives to give readers rich, complex characters that always find their happily ever after.
Cheryl Head lives and writes, in Washington, DC. At the core, her writing includes broad themes of diversity. I'm a huge fan of British mysteries on PBS.
Adiba Jaigirdar is the award-winning, critically-acclaimed and bestselling author of The Henna Wars, Hani & Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating, and A Million to One. A Bangladeshi/Irish writer and former teacher, she has an MA in Postcolonial Studies from the University of Kent, England and a BA in English and History from UCD, Ireland.
Malinda Lo is the bestselling author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club, winner of the National Book Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, as well as Michael L. Printz and Walter Dean Myers honors. Her debut novel Ash, a Sapphic retelling of Cinderella, was a finalist for the William C. Morris YA Debut Award and the Andre Norton Award for YA Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the Lambda Literary Award. She can be found on social media @malindalo or at malindalo.com.
Georgina Kiersten is an author known for their wide range of LGBTQ+ romance novels that center around the stories of Black queer and trans individuals. As a Black-disabled trans person who was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. In addition to having dyslexia, being autistic, and having ADHD. They have a unique perspective on writing romance. It also drives their passion to create a diverse and inclusive romance genre for everyone.
Tasha C. Miller is a self-taught, self-represented artist of both impactful images and wondrous words. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Detroit, her literary and art journey began when she was just a child. Tasha returned to her hometown to attend Pratt Institute and studied architecture. She then received her B.A. in Literature and Creative Writing from Harvard University. Tasha currently lives, loves, works, and plays in Brooklyn, New York.
Lisa C. Moore is the founder and editor of RedBone Press, which publishes award-winning work celebrating the culture of black lesbians and gay men and promoting understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream. Moore is the editor of does your mama know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories, co-editor of Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity, and co-editor, co-compiler and co-publisher (with Vintage Entity Press) of Carry the Word: A Bibliography of Black LGBTQ Books. Moore was also board co-president of Fire & Ink, an advocacy organization for LGBTQ writers of African descent.
Nikki Rashan is the author of novels Double Pleasure Double Pain, You Make Me Wanna, and Cyber Case. Her fourth book, The EXchange, was released June of 2013. In 2004, Nikki shared her coming out story on Oprah with the hope of reaching out to other women who faced a similar inner crisis. Nikki has been featured in Milwaukee Magazine, Swerv magazine, Studs magazine, mke, and she also participated in the GayNeighbor.org campaign, which helped promote awareness and visibility of LGBT families throughout Southeastern Wisconsin.
Stephanie Shea is a self-proclaimed introvert, who spends her days in corporate daydreaming of becoming a full-time novelist.
Her favorite things include binging tv shows, creating worlds where no character is too queer, broken or sensitive, and snacks. Lots of snacks.
Someday, she hopes to curb her road rage, and get past her anxiety over social media and author bios.
Her favorite things include binging tv shows, creating worlds where no character is too queer, broken or sensitive, and snacks. Lots of snacks.
Someday, she hopes to curb her road rage, and get past her anxiety over social media and author bios.
Skyy is a 35-year-old author, screenwriter and playwright from Memphis, TN. Her first novel, "Choices" was released in 2007 and quickly gained popularity both within the gay and lesbian community and within the urban fiction community.
Tawanna Sullivan was raised in Baltimore with a solid foundation in the Baptist church and 80s horror movies. Her short stories have been featured in various anthologies, including Iridescence: Sensuous Shades of Lesbian Erotica, Dangerous Bargain and Forever Vacancy. The Closet Case is her first, full-length mystery novel.
Currently living in New Jersey, she is working on her next mystery and finding new ways to make her wife laugh.
Currently living in New Jersey, she is working on her next mystery and finding new ways to make her wife laugh.
Tasha Suri is an award-winning author, a writing tutor, an occasional librarian and a cat owner. Her debut novel Empire of Sand was named one of the 100 best fantasy books of all time by TIME magazine.
Tanai Walker started writing as a teenager with the lofty goal of one day becoming a published author. She knew that if she worked hard enough, she could realize her dream one day. After years of writing, Bold Strokes Books accepted one of her manuscripts for publication.
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