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Jewelle Gomez

Author of The Gilda Stories

Includes the names: Jewel Gomez, Jewell Gomez, Jewelle Gomez, Jewelle L Gomez

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Works by Jewelle Gomez

The Gilda Stories 317 copies, 6 reviews
Swords of the Rainbow: Gay & Lesbian Fantasy Adventures (Editor; Contributor) 89 copies
Forty-Three Septembers: Essays 71 copies
Don't Explain: Short Fiction 54 copies
Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 (Annual) 48 copies, 1 review
The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition 46 copies, 3 reviews
The Gilda Stories [and] Bones & Ash 33 copies, 1 review
Oral Tradition: Selected Poems Old & New 28 copies
Over the Rainbow Lesbian and Gay Politics 23 copies
Flamingoes & Bears Poems 3 copies
No day too long 2 copies
... Night 1 copy
Chicago 1927 (short story) 1 copy
Speculative Fiction and Black Lesbians [article] 1 copy

Joe Louis was a heck of a fighter 1 copy

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Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th… (Contributor) 368 copies
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (Contributor) 321 copies, 6 reviews
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (Contributor) 232 copies, 2 reviews
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Contributor) 212 copies
Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories (Contributor) 203 copies, 1 review
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves (Contributor) 182 copies, 2 reviews
Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributor) 141 copies, 1 review
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Contributor) 140 copies, 3 reviews
Lesbian Love Stories (Contributor) 112 copies, 2 reviews
Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing (Contributor) 111 copies, 1 review
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by… (Contributor) 110 copies
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing (Contributor) 97 copies
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American… (Contributor) 95 copies
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to… (Contributor) 83 copies

Skin Deep: Black Women & White Women Write About Race (Contributor) 73 copies

Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues (Contributor) 69 copies

The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (Contributor) 69 copies

Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian And Gay Short Stories (Contributor) 65 copies

Somewhere in the Night: Stories of Suspense (Introduction, some editions) 64 copies, 2 reviews

The Leading Edge: An Anthology of Lesbian Sexual Fiction (Lady Winston… (Contributor) 61 copies

It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and… (Contributor) 52 copies, 2 reviews

Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (Contributor) 42 copies

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler (Contributor) 40 copies, 3 reviews

Embracing The Dark (Contributor) 37 copies

Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women (Contributor) 33 copies, 1 review

Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (Contributor) 32 copies

To Be Continued, Take Two (Contributor) 26 copies

To Be Continued (Contributor) 26 copies

Out For Blood (Contributor) 23 copies

Women of the Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica (Contributor) 19 copies

Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (Contributor) 19 copies

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