Works by
Jewelle Gomez
(Writer)

Jewelle Gomez, writer and activist, is the author of seven books. Her work includes three collections of poetry, her personal essays, and a new collection of short stories entitled DON'T EXPLAIN. Her double Lambda Award winning lesbian vampire novel, THE GILDA STORIES, was just re-issued in a special 13th anniversary edition. She adapted that cult favorite for the stage, a commission for the Urban Bush Women Company, which performed it in 13 U.S. cities. Her newest chapter in the Gilda saga appears in the first anthology of Black speculative fiction, DARK MATTER (Warner Books). She was on the founding board of GLAAD and the Astraea National Lesbian Foundation; and currently serves on the advisory boards of the James C. Hormel LGBT Center at the San Francisco Public Library and of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. She is finishing a new novel called TELEVISED and a play about James Baldwin. -- from Saints & Sinners