JEWELLE GOMEZ is the author of seven books including the cult favorite lesbian vampire novel, The Gilda Stories, winner of two Lambda Literary Awards. Her most recent play, “Waiting for Giovanni,” premiered at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco in 2011. Her new novel, Televised, is looking for a publisher.
KATHLEEN WARNOCK is a playwright and editor. Her erotica has appeared in Best Lesbian Erotica, A Woman’s Touch, Best Lesbian Romance and Friction 7. Her fiction, essays and reviews have been seen in Love, Christopher Street; ROCK-RGRL ; BUST; Ms.; Metal Maidens; It’s Only Rock and Roll; Gargoyle and the liner notes for the Joan Jett CD Unfinished Business. Her plays have been produced in New York, Ireland and England, and regionally in the United States. Rock the Line was produced by Emerging Artists Theatre in New York and won the Robert Chesley Award for Emerging Playwright. She is curator of the Robert Chesley / Jane Chambers Playwrights Project for TOSOS Theater, and Playwrights Company Manager for Emerging Artists Theatre. She is Ambassador of Love for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival and a member of the Dramatists Guild. She curates the Drunken! Careening! Writers! reading series at KGB Bar in NYC (since 2004). Website: kathleenwarnock.com; Twitter: @kwarnockny.