“My early readers told me I needed to focus. Yes, I wanted to write my story, but what was the story? Was there a story?”… read more

“[…] it takes hours of mental wrangling every morning to get over myself and produce, to convince myself that what I’m writing has potential and meaning and is not just the expression of a hot-headed delusion.”… read more

Parker was both an extraordinary poet on the page and a riveting performer of her work… read more

“I am afraid my boyfriend has a porn addiction.”… read more

“What I found interesting about writing a satire contemporaneously to the events I was satirizing is that, in this case, Trump and his new administration could either match or exceed the over-the-top heightened reality I was creating.”… read more

While publishers undeniably have the right to acquire and profit from any book they wish, they also bear an essential responsibility to promote civil discourse and reject hate speech that is often a precursor to violence… read more

“I want to write queer books that reflect our queer lives, bodies, relationships, and the worlds we build for each other.”… read more

In Sarah Waters’ writing, historical queer female desire is inferred, inserted, and re-imagined… read more

The election was a stunning blow for us, this country, and the world…. read more

Author Lucy Jane Bledsoe speaks on using fiction to explore a hidden queer history: “As I dug and wrote, dug and wrote, I wanted, most of all, to find evidence that Aunt Lucybelle had lived a happy life, albeit a short one.”… read more