Past Speakers
Lara Zielinsky
Lara Zielinsky is the author of two novels from PD Publishing: Turning Point and Turn for Home, and has several published short stories exploring women loving women. She hosts the author interview program "Readings in Lesbian & Bisexual... Read more →
Robert Philipson
Robert Philipson (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature) is a filmmaker, scholar, journalist, and reformed heterosexual. His current projects explore gay and lesbian culture through video, writing, and promiscuity. Very Good-Looking Seeks Same, his... Read more →
Jenny Lowery
Jenny Lowery is a writer and performer from Seattle. Check her out at www.pidgeoncoopproductions.com Read More →
Merri Lisa Johnson
Merri Lisa Johnson believes in bold lines, strange truths, off rhymes, and the art of the glimpse. She is a connoisseur of intensity, a hopeless romantic, a chronic workaholic, a recovering idealist, and a passionate guardian of distant intermittent... Read more →
Kathleen Warnock
Kathleen Warnock is a New York-based playwright and editor. She is series editor for Best Lesbian Erotica (Cleis) and curator of the Robert Chesley/Jane Chambers Playwrights Project for TOSOS. Since 2004, she has run the Drunken! Careening! Writers!... Read more →
Jen Violi
With reverence for stories as healing tools, Jen Violi, MA, MFA, facilitates individual and group workshops and retreats on writing, ritual, and personal transformation. Jen also creates and delivers Love Notes, inspiration and affirmation via old-fashioned... Read more →
Joan Timberlake
Joan Timberlake is a literary agent and founder of Timberlake Literary Services. Before her current career, she was a professional musician, who trained at the Berklee College of Music. She has also taught fiction and non-fiction at the University... Read more →
Cecilia Tan
Cecilia Tan is the woman Susie Bright called "simply one of the most important writers, editors, and innovators in contemporary American erotic literature." She is the author of numerous books of short stories and erotic novels, eBooks,... Read more →
Shawn Syms
Shawn Syms writes about sex, drugs and queers. Most recently, his story “Jenna on Twitter”—about social media, sexual identity and the creative process—appeared on the respected short-fiction website Joyland (http://bit.ly/syms-joyland). His... Read more →
Meg Stone
Meg Stone is the director of IMPACT, a Boston-area abuse prevention and self-defense organization. In her memoir Another Chance at Home: A Story of Domestic Violence Work, Meg writes about the struggles, joys, and contradictions of activism to create... Read more →
