Georgia Beers
Georgia Beers just wants “to become the best writer I can be.” She already has a Lambda Literary Award and six Golden Crown Literary Society Awards to her name and is one of the best-selling authors of lesbian romance. But from the start, she has always wanted to get...
Bett Norris
Bett Norris graduated from the University of Alabama with a BA in history and a burning desire to write, having grown up just down the road a piece from Harper Lee. She drew heavily on her Alabama roots for her first novel, Miss McGhee, a runnerup for Bywater Books...
Lisa Gitlin
Lisa Gitlin was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, went to Ohio State University in 1969, had the proverbial sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll experience, dropped out after her junior year and moved to New York City to become a writer, ran around the filthy...
Marcia Finical
Marcia Finical won the first annual Bywater Prize for Fiction for her first novel, Last Chance at the Lost And Found, and the 2009 Golden Crown Literary Society “Goldie” for best General Dramatic Fiction. Originally from Seattle, she has worked in a fish...
Mari SanGiovanni
Mari SanGiovanni published her first book with Bywater Books after entering a writing contest back in 2007. Her first novel Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You Were Queer is a romantic comedy that short-listed for a Lambda Literary Award and was re-released for a book...