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Biographical
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About the 2008 Lavender Certificate Winners
L-J Baker
(2008 Certificate Winner for Broken Wings) has
lived in the USA and the UK, but home is New Zealand with
her civilly united partner. In addition to Broken Wings,
she has published Lady Knight. She is currently writing
more books and hopes to soon have more novels in print. She
writes in different genres, but her first love is lesbian
fantasy. She is delighted when readers admit they don't normally
like fantasy, but ended up reading one of her books. You can
find out more about L-J's work at her website.
Catherine
Friend (2008 Certificate Winner for The Spanish Pearl)
is the author of two novels fromBold Strokes Books,
The Spanish Pearl and The Crown of Valencia,
with a third due out the end of 2008. Her memoir, Hit By
a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn,
was a 2007 Golden Crown winner and a finalist for both a 2007
Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn
Award. Her next nonfiction book, The Compassionate Carnivore:
Or How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonald's Farm, Reduce
Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat, will be released in
May, 2008. Catherine has written six children's books, and
the latest, The Perfect Nest, is a finalist for a Minnesota
Book Award and was chosen by the young reader programs of
California, Arizona, and Kansas. For her children's work,
she was the 2007 recipient of the Loft/McKnight Artist Fellowship
in Children's Literature. Catherine and her partner of 24
years raise sheep in southeastern Minnesota. You can find
out more about Catherine's work at her
website.
Nairne Holtz
(2008 Certificate Winner for The Skin Beneath)
is a Montreal-based fiction writer whose first novel, The
Skin Beneath (Insomniac, 2007), was a finalist for Quebec's
McAuslan First Book Prize. She is also the co-editor of No
Margins: writing canadian fiction in lesbian (QPress,
2006), which was shortlisted for a 2007 Lambda Literary Award.
Currently, she is working on her second book, This One's
Going to Last Forever. You can find out more about Nairne's
work at her publisher's website.
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