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Ann Bannon has been called “The Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction” for her landmark “Beebo Brinker Chronicles,” five original novels about lesbian lives in Greenwich Village in the mid-20th Century. These stories created the iconic young butch, Beebo, and provide a glimpse into the world of young women in love that continues to engage and inspire in the present day.

Jean Copeland is an English teacher and the author of The Revelation of Beatrice Darby . Her short fiction and essays appear in online and print journals including A Family by Any Other Name , Sharkreef.org , The Connecticut Review , Texas Told ‘Em, Best Lesbian Love Stories, and The First Line. www.jeancopeland.wordpress.com , www.boldstrokesbooks.com/Author-Jean-Copeland.html

R.G. Emanuelle ’s published works include Twice Bitten , Add Spice to Taste , and short stories in numerous anthologies. She co-edited the Lambda Award Finalist anthology All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica & Romance , as well as Unwrap These Presents, and Skulls and Crossbones . www.rgemanuelle.com , https://www.facebook.com/RGEmanuelle

Allison Fradkin believes the "L" in AAGPBL (“All-American Girls Professional Baseball League”) is open to interpretation. They don't call it fantasy baseball for nothing. In addition to appreciating ballpark figures, Allison has a gay old time editing the yearly queerly Off the Rocks: An Anthology of GLBT Writing for NewTown Writers Press. She also goes to bat for Pride Films & Plays as Literary Manager, Bella Books as Editorial Consultant, and Curve Magazine as Book Reviewer. Touch base at allisonfradkin.blogspot.com .

Patty G. Henderson, when she’s not writing or thinking of plot lines in her head, loves spending time with her family, friends, and coffee shops. An avowed Pluviophile, rain and thunderstorms feed her soul. She also creates book covers and offers other book services for the indie author via her Boulevard Photografica business services.

Heather Rose Jones writes in the intersection of history and fantasy, including the Alpennia series: Daughter of Mystery and The Mystic Marriage . This story was inspired by her research on lesbian themes in history and literature, which she blogs as the Lesbian Historic Motif Project. Website: alpennia.com

Lee Lynch wrote the classic novels Toothpick House and The Swashbuckler . Her newest book is Lammy finalist An American Queer . She is namesake and first recipient of the Golden Crown Literary Society Lee Lynch Classic Award for her novel The Swashbuckler . She is also a recipient of the James Duggins Mid-Career Award in Writing and many more honors. Books by Lee Lynch are available at boldstrokesbooks.com .

Megan McFerren enjoys exploring queer history through erotic romance, and illuminating the love that once dared not speak its name. Texan by birth and New Yorker by choice, she has contributed stories to anthologies from Torquere Press and Love Slave.

Cara Patterson is an Edinburgh-based Scottish writer. She has been telling stories since before she can remember, and progressed onto writing them down as soon as she had a grasp of the alphabet. She's delighted to be able to say she is now a published author.

Aliisa Percival lives in Ajax, Ontario, and is a font of useless knowledge about the Ajax munitions plant. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Toronto, and this is her first published work. Find her on twitter @aliiisamooose for triple the vowels.

Doreen Perrine ’s third novel has just been released through Bedazzled Ink and her stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and ezines. A finalist in South Africa’s Bloody Parchment Literary Festival , Doreen’s plays have been performed throughout New York. She is also an artist and teacher. http://www.doreenperrine.com/

Priscilla Scott Rhoades’s work has appeared in Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly , Mississippi Review , The Iowa Review , The San Francisco Bay Guardian , The San Francisco Sentinel , and Plexus—A Bay Area Women’s Newspaper . She lives now in the mountains of North Carolina where she writes erotica under the pseudonym Pascal Scott.

Susan Smith is a writer and librarian. Smith’s work is steeped in mythology, identity, gender, art, and sexuality. Her novels Of Drag Kings and the Wheel of Fate , Burning Dreams , and Put Away Wet were published by Bold Strokes Books, and the novella “Billy Boy” is in the Outsiders anthology from Brisk Press.

Lexy Wealleans lives in Wiltshire, England, with her partner and their imaginary dog Heathcliff. She spends most of her day struggling with spreadsheets and wishing she lived in an Enid Blyton novel instead. Her previous story, “Counting Down the Seconds”, was selected for inclusion in Heiresses of Russ 2014 .

Connie Wilkins is the real-life alter-ego of editor Sacchi Green. Connie started with science fiction and fantasy, and still writes the occasional historical or fantasy story under her own name, but Sacchi gets most of the fun, editing ten lesbian anthologies, including two Lambda Award winners. Connie has only edited two anthologies, both speculative fiction. Find them on Facebook (under Sacchi’s name, of course) or at sacchi-green.blogspot.com .

MJ Williamz is the author of seven books, including Goldie award winning Initiation by Desire . She has also had over thirty short stories published, most of them erotica with a few romances and a couple of horrors thrown in for good measure. Her newest book, Summer Passion , is now available as eBook and paperback.