Katherine V. Forrest is the 2008 recipient of the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement

Author Katherine V. Forrest is the 2008 recipient of the Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, named in honor of a legendary editor of the 1970s and 80s. Forrest has written 15 works of fiction, including her eight-volume Kate Delafield mystery series, and has worked for more two decades as a publisher; she was senior editor at Naiad Press for 10 years, and is currently supervising editor at Spinsters Ink.

She 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.

To learn more about this author see:

• Katherine V. Forrest talks about dyke detectives, the closet, and Curious Wine

• 2004 Interview with Katherine V. Forrest

• Wikipedia Article on Katherine V. Forrest

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