Love's Melody Lost
Radclyffe lives with her partner, Lee, in Philadelphia, PA where she both writes and practices surgery full-time. A member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, Pink Ink, and the Romance Writers of America, she admits to a life-long love affair with fictional romances of all persuasions. Since discovering lesbian fiction at the age of twelve while reading Ann Bannon’s Beebo Brinker, she has collected it, written it, and finally, one career later, published it. The common theme throughout her traditional romances and action/mystery series is a celebration of the power and passion of love between strong, valiant women.She states: "I first began writing love stories about women more than two decades ago because the very act of giving form to the characters that populate my imagination is a personal pleasure. I would write even if there were no one else to read what I had written. Several of my published works are expanded versions of those early private stories. In addition, there weren't many romances involving two women available at that time, and I longed to see our stories told. Today, we are fortunate to have many writers and presses bringing us a vast array of fine lesbian fiction. The new titles come much faster now than they did in the decades when a new book or two every year felt like a gift, but I still treasure every single one. These works are our history and our legacy, and I am proud to contribute in some small way to those archives."