Michelle Cliff, the Jamaican-American novelist, essayist and editor whose books include No Telephone to Heaven and Free Enterprise, died on June 12, 2016. Born Michelle Carla Cliff on November 2, 1946, in Kingston, Jamaica, she grew up in Jamaica and the United States after her parents emigrated to New York soon after her birth. She … Read more
Nene Adams, the Miami-born author of the Gaslight series of Victorian mysteries and the Lambda Literary Award finalist Flowers of Edo, died on October 3, 2015. Born in Miami in 1966, Adams lived across the southeastern United States and in New York City, and worked for eleven years in the newspaper and marketing industries. She … Read more
Sydney Pokorny, the New York writer and critic best known as co-author, with Liz Tracey, of the 1996 humor guide So You Want to Be a Lesbian?, died on September 1, 2008. A graduate of Vassar College, Pokorny and Tracey wrote the Outweek column “Out on the Town” in 1990 and 1991. Pokorny later co-founded … Read more