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.
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Copyright © 2012 by Kathleen Warnock.
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“Pool Party,” by Zoe Amos, was published as an ebook on Amazon Kindle (2011); “Daffodils,” by Sally Bellerose, was published in Pillowtalk (Alyson, 1998) and Ripe Fruit (Cleis Press, 2002); “Lessons for Leona,” by Tenille Brown, was published on Oysters & Chocolate (2011); “Stella Loves Bella,” by V. C. Clark, was published on Oysters & Chocolate (2008); “Winner Take All,” by Andrea Dale, was published in The Harder She Comes (Cleis Press, 2012); “Underskirts,” by Kirsty Logan, was published in The Winners Bridport Prize 2010 (Redcliffe Press, 2011); “La Caída,” by Anna Meadows, was published in Girls Who Bite (Cleis Press, 2011); a flash fiction version of “The Invitation,” by Maggie Veness, titled “Letter Under the Door,” was published in In My Bed magazine (2010); “Crave,” by Fiona Zedde, was published as “Dreamtime” in Best Lesbian Romance 2007 (Cleis Press, 2007).