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Lee Lynch

Lee Lynch has been proudly writing lesbian stories since the 1960s when she was a frequent contributor to “The Ladder,” the only lesbian publication at the time. Since then she has published a dozen books, her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, and she has written reviews and feature articles for “The Lambda Book Report” and many other publications. Her syndicated column, “The Amazon Trail,” has been running since 1986.

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Sweet Creek

Sweet Creek

Author Lee Lynch tackles broad themes that affect us all:  love, death, gender, and aging in a novel rich with love, friendship, passion and romance.

Sweet Creek is a story of love, community, and the changing tides of time set in a town where trannies, lesbian cops, aging gay hippies, womyn's landers, and rural couples come in search of a lesbian paradise.  Two left over lesbian hippies, now in their 50's, Donny and Chick run the vegetarian Natural Woman Foods store.  In Donny, a black lesbian and Chick, her lover, Lee Lynch continues to depict the struggles of working class butch lesbians and femmes.

 

 

Advance Reviews for Sweet Creek

Novelist Lee Lynch—author of a dozen books including Old Dyke Tales and Morton River Valley—has been creating richly woven lesbian stories since she was a contributor to The Ladder in the ‘60s. She’s done it again with the beautifully rendered tale, Sweet Creek. The sharply focused snapshot of the women of Waterfall Falls, a tourist stop along Oregon’s Interstate 5, Sweet Creek takes us inside the lives of aging gay hippies, trannies, lesbian cops, womyn’s landers and rural couples by tackling broad themes that affect us all: love, death, gender and aging.

Lynch possesses an authentic rural voice—so rare in lesbian literature—and offers up stories that are simple and moving, infused with a kaleidoscope of emotions, that remind us of the fiercely loving way lesbians find wholeness. A must read for dykes of all ages.

 -- Diane Anderson-Minshall, executive editor of Curve magazine and co-editor of Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Identity and Sexuality.

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“…Lee Lynch creates an entire town peopled with sympathetic straights, homophobes, lesbians, loggers, and new age dykes.  Campers, goddess worshipers, freeloaders, softball players, artists and writers, blue collar dykes who pump gas and paint houses, and druggies all come to Waterfall Falls searching for a lesbian paradise in the Spirit Ridge and Dawn Farm lesbian communities.  Two left over lesbian hippies, now in their 50’s, Donny and Chick run the vegetarian, Natural Woman Foods store.  In Donny, a black lesbian and Chick, her lover, Lee Lynch continues to depict the struggles of working class butch lesbians and femmes.  With names like Jeep, Solstice, Rattlesnake, and Pennylane, Lynch remembers that generation of women who pulled up stakes in the various cities and towns across the U.S. to attempt to create a communal ideal of lesbian life.”

-- Judith P. Stelboum is the author of Past Perfect: a novel of lesbian life and co-editor of the Lesbian Polyamory Reader: Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Casual Sex, Editor of HLLQ (Harrington Lesbian Literary Quarterly) and Editor-in-Chief of the Haworth Press’ Alice Street Editions for Lesbian books.


Previous Publications

Toothpick House 1983

Old Dyke Tales  1984

The Swashbuckler  1985

Home in Your Hands  1986

Dusty's Queen of Hearts Diner  1987

The Amazon Trail  1988 

Sue Slate, Private Eye  1989

That Old Studebaker  1991

Morton River Valley  1992

Cactus Love  1994 

Off the Rag: Lesbians Writing on Menopause, Anthology Edited with Akia Woods 1996

Rafferty Street  1998

Lee can be contacted at LeeLynch

Website:  Lee Lynch, Writer

MySpace:  LeeLynchwriter

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