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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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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction From the African Diaspora (Contributor) 464 copies, 6 reviews
Chloe Plus Olivia: An Anthology of Lesbian Literature from the 17th… (Contributor) 413 copies
The Penguin Book of Lesbian Short Stories (Contributor) 278 copies, 2 reviews
Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (Contributor) 253 copies
Women on Women: An Anthology of American Lesbian Short Fiction (Contributor) 229 copies, 1 review
The Letter Q: Queer Writers' Notes to their Younger Selves (Contributor) 225 copies, 3 reviews
Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories (Contributor) 212 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Poetry 2001 (Contributor) 210 copies
Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Contributor) 182 copies, 3 reviews
Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (Contributor) 165 copies, 1 review
Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Science Fiction and Fantasy (Contributor) 163 copies, 1 review
Erotique Noire/Black Erotica (Contributor) 144 copies, 1 review
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by… (Contributor) 134 copies
Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing (Contributor) 126 copies, 1 review
Lesbian Love Stories (Contributor) 124 copies, 2 reviews
Does Your Mama Know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (Contributor) 116 copies, 1 review
Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing (Contributor) 115 copies
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American… (Contributor) 108 copies
Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology (Contributor) 102 copies
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to… (Contributor) 102 copies
Skin Deep: Black Women and White Women Write About Race (Contributor) 85 copies
My Lover Is a Woman (Contributor) 84 copies, 1 review
Tenderheaded: A Comb-Bending Collection of Hair Stories (Contributor) 82 copies, 1 review
Serious pleasure : Lesbian erotic stories & poetry (Contributor) 76 copies
The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics (Contributor) 73 copies
Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues (Contributor) 72 copies
Lavender Mansions: 40 Contemporary Lesbian and Gay Short Stories (Contributor) 70 copies
The Leading Edge: An Anthology of Lesbian Sexual Fiction (Lady Winston… (Contributor) 67 copies
Somewhere in the Night: Stories of Suspense (Introduction, some editions) 65 copies, 2 reviews
Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women (Contributor) 62 copies, 1 review
On our backs : The best erotic fiction (Contributor) 61 copies
Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (Contributor) 57 copies
Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler (Contributor) 55 copies, 2 reviews
It's So You: 35 Women Write About Personal Expression Through Fashion and… (Contributor) 52 copies, 2 reviews
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Contributor) 48 copies, 2 reviews
In Search of Stonewall: The Riots at 50, The Gay and Lesbian Review at 25,… (Contributor) 48 copies, 1 review
Embracing The Dark (Contributor) 43 copies
Heiresses of Russ 2011: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (Contributor) 39 copies
Sisterfire: Black Womanist Fiction and Poetry (Contributor) 37 copies
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American… (Contributor) 36 copies
To Be Continued (Contributor) 30 copies
To Be Continued, Take Two (Contributor) 26 copies
Best Lesbian Romance 2008 (Contributor) 25 copies
Out for Blood: Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Women (Contributor) 24 copies
Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction (Contributor) 23 copies
Voices Rising: Celebrating 20 Years of Black Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and… (Contributor) 21 copies, 1 review
Women of the Bite: Lesbian Vampire Erotica (Contributor) 18 copies
Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought (Contributor) 16 copies
Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing (Contributor) 15 copies
Night Shadows: Queer Horror (Contributor) 14 copies
re: skin (Contributor) 13 copies, 1 review
Best Lesbian Erotica 2013 (Foreword) 9 copies
Sinister Wisdom 78/79: Old Lesbians/Dykes ll (Contributor) 7 copies
Saints Sinners 2010: New Fiction from the Festival (Contributor) 3 copies
Sinister Wisdom 28 (Contributor) 3 copies
Saints + Sinners 2014: New Fiction from the Festival (Introduction) 2 copies
Sinister Wisdom 28 (Contributor) 1 copy
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Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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San Francisco, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
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