Katherine V. Forrest

2008 Keynote Speaker

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.

Katherine has been 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).

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 Stevie and Martie