Katherine V. Forrest

Katherine V. Forrest (born 1939 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is an American writer. Forrest is best known for her eight novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield - the very first in the American lesbian mystery genre. Her romance A Curious Wine is considered a classic of American lesbian literature. In discussion of the "light" element of the lesbian romance Forrest said, "I think it's political as hell... Here were two women who had a... more

Katherine V. Forrest (born 1939 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada) is an American writer. Forrest is best known for her eight novels about lesbian police detective Kate Delafield - the very first in the American lesbian mystery genre. Her romance A Curious Wine is considered a classic of American lesbian literature. In discussion of the "light" element of the lesbian romance Forrest said, "I think it's political as hell... Here were two women who had a lot of choices in life, a lot of options, and out of all of those options they chose the hardest one, which was to love each other." She also had a ten-year tenure as fiction editor at Naiad Press and currently serves as Supervising Editor at Spinsters Ink. She has also written a number of romance and science fiction novels. As an editor she worked with dozens of writers, including Jane Rule and Lee Lynch, who wrote of Forrest's fiction, "Her stories embrace and strengthen us, and give us permission to live our lives fully just as we are."... less