Welcome to the website of Catherine Lundoff, author, editor and publisher of many things fictional and otherwise.
Catherine is the award-winning author of five short story collections: Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic, Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories, Crave: Tales of Lust, Love and Longing, Night’s Kiss and A Day at the Inn, A Night at the Palace and Other Stories, and three novels (so far), Silver Moon: A Wolves of Wolf’s Point Novel, Blood Moon: A Wolves of Wolf’s Point Novel and Medusa’s Touch (written as Emily L. Byrne). She is the editor of the anthology Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost Stories and the fantastical pirate anthology Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) and co-editor, with JoSelle Vanderhooft, of Hellebore and Rue: Tales of Queer Women and Magic. Her short stories have appeared in over 100 publications and her books have won accolades at the Goldie Awards, the Bisexual Book Awards, the Rainbow Awards and the Spectrum Awards. Catherine also writes erotica and romance as Emily L. Byrne. Her works and papers are collected in the SFWA/Gender Studies Collections at the Northern Illinois University Library and in the Tretter Collection at the University of Minnesota. In addition, she is the publisher at Queen of Swords Press.
Learn more about Catherine, her books, short fiction and nonfiction, check out links to some of her favorite things, follow her blog on Dreamwidth, hire her to teach or do presentations, support Queen of Swords Press on Patreon and find out where she’ll will be appearing next.
The Latest
Catherine is going to be a Guest of Honor at Capricon 44 in Chicago in 2024!
Watch an interview with Catherine on Sophia Ignosi’s Twitch channel.
Listen to Catherine read from her story, “Hunger,” on The Story Hour.
Read a post by author Judith Tarr about Catherine’s Wolves of Wolf’s Point series at Tor.com
Catherine was the Author Guest of Honor at Marscon 2022 in Minneapolis!
Check out a new interview with Catherine about being a small press publisher at Voyage Minnesota Magazine.
Watch and listen to Catherine read from Out of This World on The Story Hour
Read an interview with Catherine on The Ripple Effect Music Blog.