Victoria A. Brownworth is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated and SPJ and NLGJA award-winning journalist and has won the Lambda Literary Award for "Coming Out of Cancer: Writings from the Lesbian Cancer Epidemic" and been a finalist for seven of her other books, including "The Golden Age of Lesbian Erotica: 1920-1940" and "Bed: New Lesbian Erotica." A long-time LGBTQ activist, she's been on OUT magazine's 100 list several times. She's also the author of "Day of the Dead," "Too Queer:Essays from a Radical Life," "Film Fatales," "Lost in America" and "Rock Hudson: A Biography" among other books. She is the editor of "Night Bites: Vampire Tales by Women," "Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women,""Restricted Access: Lesbians on Disability," among others. Her 2012 collection "From Where We Sit: Black Writers Write Black Youth" won the Moonbeam Award silver medal for Cultural/Historical Fiction and was also awarded Honorable Mention by the ALA. Brownworth's novella, "Ordinary Mayhem," was awarded Honorable Mention in Best Horror 2012. Her fiction and essays have been published in over 70 anthologies. Her essays, stories and columns have appeared in the New York Times, Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, SPIN, Huffington Post,the Advocate, Curve and OUT magazine. Brownworth is a columnist for the Advocate, SheWired, the San Francisco Bay Area Reporter and the Journal-Register newspaper chain. She's the mystery editor for Lambda Literary as well as a regular columnist for the webzine. She's a columnist and contributing editor for Curve magazine. She reviewed for Publisher's Weekly for 18 years and has been a book, film and television critic for a plethora of other newspapers, magazines and journals. In 2010 she co-founded a program that mentors young inner-city writers--KITH (Kids in the Hood). Brownworth has written several award-winning independent short films, including "Mondays" and "but would you take her back?" both directed by filmmaker Judith M. Redding. She teaches writing and film at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and teaches private master classes in writing. In 2010 she co-founded Tiny Satchel Press, an independent publisher of young adult books for minority youth--youth of color, LGBT youth and kids of various economic and social strata. Read her political blog at www.victoriabrownworth.com, read her columns at www.curvemag.com,www.advocate.com, www.lambdaliterary.org,www.shewired.com, www.epgn.com and www.ebar.com. follow her on Twitter @VABVOX. Check out the Tiny Satchel Press website at www.tinysatchelpress.com