KV Forrest - Biography

Katherine V. Forrest

Katherine V. Forrest is the internationally known author of 15 works of fiction including the lesbian classics Curious Wine and Daughters of a Coral Dawn, the first novel in her Lambda Literary Award-winning lesbian-feminist utopian trilogy. Her eight-volume Kate Delafield mystery series is a three-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Her novels are in translation worldwide, and her stories, articles and reviews have appeared in national and international publications. A recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award, she was senior editor at Naiad Press for ten years (1984 -1994, and has edited or co-edited numerous anthologies. Currently she is supervising editor at Spinsters Ink, serves as president of the board of trustees of the Lambda Literary Foundation, and lives in Half Moon Bay, CA with her partner, Jo, and two female cats named Martie and Teddie.

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Author of the award-winning Kate Delafield Mystery series:

Amateur City (1984);

Murder at the Nightwood Bar (1987);

The Beverly Malibu (1989);

Murder by Tradition 1991;

Alyson Publications, NYC

Liberty Square (1996)

Apparition Alley (1997)

Sleeping Bones (1999).

Hancock Park, 2004

The Putnam-Berkley Publishing Group, NYC

Three times winner of the Lambda Literary Award, best mystery, for The Beverly Malibu, Murder by Tradition, Hancock Park Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for best science fiction/fantasy for Daughters of an Emerald Dusk.

Author of the novels:

Curious Wine (1983); Alyson Publications

Daughters of a Coral Dawn (1984); Alyson Publications

An Emergence of Green (1986); The Haworth Press

Dreams and Swords (1987) a short story collection; Flashpoint, 1994.

Daughters of an Amber Noon (2002) Alyson Publications

Daughters of an Emerald Dusk, (2005) Alyson Publications

Editor of numerous anthologies, most recently Lesbian Pulp Fiction: The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels, 1950-1965 (Cleis Press, 2005); All in the Seasoning (Bywater Books, 2006); Love, Castro Street (Alyson Books, 2007); author of book reviews which have appeared in a number of publications including The Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Articles have appeared in Brother and Sister (HarperCollins) as well as in The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review and The Lambda Book Report. Winner of the Lambda Literary Foundation's Pioneer Award.

Profiled in USA Today, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Bloomsbury Review, and most major lesbian/gay publications in America, including The Advocate; The Book Report; Curve; Visibilities; as well as abroad (The Queensland Pride, Queensland, Australia; Lesbienne, Paris, France); Tetu (Germany).

Senior fiction editor 1984-1994, Naiad Press. Teacher of many classes and seminars on the craft of writing. Currently supervising editor, Spinsters Ink. President of the Board of Trustees, Lambda Literary Foundation.