Roxane Gay | Hunger | In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and body, using her o
Francine J. Harris | Play Dead | ‘This book talks smack. This book chews with its open mouth full of the juiciest words, the most indigestible images. This book undoes me. Francine J.
June Jordan | Directed By Desire | “Jordan . . . is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet.”–Alice Walker “Always urgent, inspiring, a
Audrey Cefaly | The Gulf | Winner of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Drama. The divide between Kendra and Betty mimics the very world that devours them: a vast and polarizing
Alexis De Veaux | Yabo | Alexis De Veaux laces together the past and the present with poetic elegance in an intricate and delicate pattern of call and response. …Echoing the
Tom Robbins | Even Cowgirls Get the Blues | Starring Sissy Hanshaw–flawlessly beautiful, almost. A small-town girl with big-time dreams and a quirk to match–hitchhiking her way into your heart
Gerri Hill | Scorpion | Poking a sleeping bear with a sharp stick is foolish. Marty Edwards is about to be very foolish. Investigative reporter Marty Edwards has found her ni
C. C. Carter | Body Language | Body Language’ a celebration of all things woman by award-winning performance-poet C.C.Carter, was a 2002 Lambda Literary Award finalist.