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Pittsburgh, The United States

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Paula Martinac is the author of five novels, including Clio Rising (2019) and The Ada Decades (2017), a finalist for the 2018 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction, and the Lambda Literary Award-winning Out of Time, which was a finalist for the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award. Her short stories and essays have most recently appeared in Raleigh Review, Main Street Rag, Minerva Rising, and Hippocampus. She has also published three nonfiction books on LGBT themes; authored plays that were produced in Pittsburgh, New York, and D.C.; and written an award-winning full-length screenplay. She is a lecturer in the undergraduate creative writing program at UNC Charlotte and a writing coach with Charlotte Center for the Literary ...more

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	Out of Time 3.78 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1990 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ada Decades 4.11 avg rating — 36 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Home Movies 3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chicken 3.22 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clio Rising 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queerest Places: A National Guide to Gay and Lesbian Historic Sites really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1997	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Voyages Out, 1: Lesbian Short Fiction by Paula Martinac (Goodreads Author), Carla Tomaso 3.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1989	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	K.D. Lang liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1996 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lesbian and Gay Book of Love and Marriage it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The One You Call Sister 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1989 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Paula Martinac and 4 other people liked Mo's review of Hurricane Child: "4.5 stars This is an absolutely beautiful, often heartbreaking, novel. The first-person descriptions of the twelve-year-old main character being bullied just about broke me. I love that coming out to herself was part of her story, but there were s..." Read more of this review »
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Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
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― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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