A few of the queer authors that I have collaborated with over the years.
Authors
Adina is an artist and self described “crippled punk” living and working in Minneapolis, her work not only touches on disability, but queer identity and spirituality. Currently, she is working on what she hopes will be an art installation with multiple mediums at play, including poetry titled, My Body Carries Ghosts. providing the audience with the experience of being disabled during the ongoing global pandemic. What you hear today are pieces from Wheelchairs, Whips and Bondage Tape. A chapbook discussing sexuality and disability.
Adrienne Novy is an artist with Cat Eye Syndrome who grew up in the Chicago west suburbs. She is the author of Crowd Surfing With God (Half Mystic Press, 2018) and the mini-chapbooks We Have Each Other’s Flowers (Zines + Things, 2020) and Pull (Ginger Bug Press, 2020). Adrienne writes about subjects such as Jewish identity, mental health, and teenage girlhood through a pop culture lens. Her work has been nominated for awards such as the Pushchart Prize, Best of the Net, and Bettering American Poetry. Her second full-length collection of poems will be forthcoming from Game Over Books in December 2022.
Jessie Chandler is the author of nine novels, including the humorously suspenseful Shay O’Hanlon Caper Series. Her crime fiction has garnered a Lambda Literary finalist nod, three Golden Crown Literary Awards, three USA Book Awards, and an Independent Publisher Book Award.
As a kid, Jessie honed an interest in crime by avidly reading Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Encyclopedia Brown, and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Three Investigators series under the covers with a flashlight.
Junauda Petrus is a creative activist, writer, playwright, and multi-dimensional performance artist who is born on Dakota land, West-Indian descended, and African-sourced. Her work centers around Black wildness, futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, spectacle and shimmer.
She is the author of The Stars And The Blackness Between Them, winner of the 2020 Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award.
Rachel Gold (they/she) is the author of multiple, award-winning queer & trans Young Adult novels. Currently an English professor at Macalester College.
Rachel has a diverse writing career that includes seven years as a reporter for a regional LGBTQ newspaper and fifteen years surviving corporate marketing.
Their debut novel, Being Emily, was the first Young Adult novel to tell the story of a transgender girl from her perspective. They’re a nonbinary lesbian, all-around nerd and avid gamer.
Dianna Hunter is the author of the 2023 novel, Clouded Waters, and two nonfiction books, Wild Mares: My Lesbian Back-to-the-Land Life and Breaking Hard Ground: Stories of the Minnesota Farm Advocates. She farmed and worked for a program advocating to keep farmers on the land before beginning a career in writing and college teaching. She directed programs in writing and gender equity and taught writing and women’s and gender studies at four universities, including the University of Wisconsin-Superior, from which she retired in 2012. She has published, read, and performed short stories, poetry, journalism, and creative nonfiction in many regional and national venues and now writes, gardens, and forages urban green spaces in Duluth, Minnesota.
MB Panichi’s first book, Saving Morgan, won a Golden Crown Literary Award Award for Science Fiction. Running Toward Home is the sequel, followed by Blood and Roses. All three are fast-paced Sci-Fi Adventure Romances meant to keep you turning the pages with intrigue and a taste of mystery.
Choosing Love is a present-day romance set in northern Minnesota’s Iron Range. MB lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her wife and their Shih Tzu fur babies. MB’s non-writing obsessions are reading, drumming, heavy-metal music, and Star Wars. Saving Morgan, Winner, Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy; Finalist Lesbian Debut Author.
Karin has been exclusively devoted to lesbian fiction since the publication of her first novel in 1989. As an author published by the storied Naiad Press, she worked with Barbara Grier and Donna McBride, and has been fortunate to be mentored by a number of editors, including Katherine V. Forrest.
In addition to multiple Lambda Literary Awards, she has been featured as a Stonewall Library and Archives Distinguished Author. Other accolades include the Ann Bannon Popular Choice and other awards for her writing, as well as the selection as a Trailblazer by the Golden Crown Literary Society. She is best known for novels such as Painted Moon, Substitute for Love, My Lady Lipstick, Maybe Next Time and The Kiss that Counted.
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