Judith Katz

Judith Katz

Judith Katz is the author of two novels, The Escape Artist and Running Fiercely Toward a High Thin Sound, which won the 1992 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction. She has received grants from the Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and National...
Georgia Beers

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

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

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...

Michele Karlsberg, Marketing and Management

2014 marks Michele Karlsberg’s twenty-fifth year as a publicist for the LGBT publishing community, working with authors, organizations and film/theater professionals. As the curator of the nationwide “Outspoken: Gay and Lesbian Literary Series,” she...