Lisa C. Moore
Lisa C. Moore is the founder and editor of RedBone Press, which publishes work that celebrates the culture of black lesbians and gay men and further promotes understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream. RedBone’s first book, does your mama know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories, won two 1997 Lambda Literary Awards, for Small Press and Lesbian Studies. The second title, the bull-jean stories by Sharon Bridgforth, won the 1998 Lambda Literary Award for Small Press. Three more books were released September 2004: love conjure/blues, a novel by Sharon Bridgforth; last rights and nothin’ ugly fly, both books of poetry by Marvin K. White. In the summer of 2005, RedBone published Where the Apple Falls, poetry by Samiya Bashir. Moore is the co-editor of Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity, published in spring 2006.
Moore is currently in production for sassy b. gonn: Searching for Black Lesbian Elders, a video documentary stemming from her master’s research in anthropology (University of Texas, 2000). Moore was also lead organizer of the Fire & Ink writers festival for LGBT people of African descent held at the University of Illinois-Chicago in September 2002; she is currently board president of Fire & Ink. Moore is the former editor of the Lambda Book Report.
[Photo © 2005 by Bernard Morrisett.]
