Katie Gilmartin

Katie Gilmartin believes that disconnection from the past is a kind of spiritual violence and storytelling is one way to heal. Katie (she/they) runs the Queer Ancestors Project, devoted to forging sturdy relationships between young Queer and Trans people and their ancestors through free workshops in writing and printmaking. Her illustrated noir mystery, Blackmail, My Love, won Lambda and Indiefab Gold Awards. Katie’s second novel, Vice Academy, set in the shimmering subterranean nightlife of 1950s San Francisco, illuminates the fierce, tender work of cultivating community against all odds (and is in search of a publisher).