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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 422 copies, 10 reviews

Swords of the Rainbow: Gay & Lesbian Fantasy Adventures (Editor; Contributor) 91 copies

Forty-Three Septembers: Essays 72 copies

Don't Explain: Short Fiction 58 copies

Best Lesbian Erotica 1997 (Annual) (Editor) 49 copies, 1 review

The Gilda Stories [and] Bones & Ash 34 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) 381 copies

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (Contributor) 377 copies, 6 reviews

The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (Contributor) 249 copies, 2 reviews

Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Contributor) 223 copies

Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (Contributor) 214 copies, 1 review

The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves (Contributor) 206 copies, 3 reviews

Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories (Contributor) 205 copies, 2 reviews

Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (Contributor) 155 copies, 1 review

Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributor) 149 copies, 1 review

Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Contributor) 149 copies, 3 reviews

Erotique Noire/Black Erotica (Contributor) 134 copies, 1 review

Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing (Contributor) 119 copies, 1 review

Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by… (Contributor) 119 copies

Lesbian Love Stories (Contributor) 115 copies, 2 reviews

Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (Contributor) 110 copies, 1 review

Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing (Contributor) 104 copies

Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology (Contributor) 100 copies

Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American… (Contributor) 99 copies

Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to… (Contributor) 89 copies

Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race (Contributor) 76 copies

Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (Contributor) 72 copies, 1 review

The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (Contributor) 71 copies

Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues (Contributor) 68 copies

Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Short Stories (Contributor) 66 copies

Somewhere in the Night: Stories of Suspense (Introduction, some editions) 65 copies, 2 reviews

The Leading Edge: An Anthology of Lesbian Sexual Fiction (Lady Winston… (Contributor) 62 copies

Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women (Contributor) 52 copies, 1 review

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) 48 copies

Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler (Contributor) 47 copies, 3 reviews

Embracing The Dark (Contributor) 41 copies

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

Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American… (Contributor) 31 copies

To Be Continued (Contributor) 27 copies

To Be Continued, Take Two (Contributor) 26 copies

Best Lesbian Romance 2008 (Contributor) 24 copies

Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Contributor) 24 copies, 3 reviews

Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (Contributor) 22 copies

Out For Blood (Contributor) 22 copies

Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and… (Contributor) 20 copies, 1 review

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

re: skin (Contributor) 13 copies, 1 review

Night Shadows: Queer Horror (Contributor) 13 copies

Best Lesbian Erotica 2013 (Foreword) 9 copies

Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing (Contributor) 7 copies

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