Brewing Community with Catherine Lundoff

Brewing Community is a series of guest posts in which readers, writers, artists and fans are invited to share their experiences of community. Whether online or in person, these groups bring a great deal of support and sometimes stress to their members. The aim of Brewing Community is to share the joy and find ways to brew stronger communities.

The series first ran in 2015. In returning to it after several years, I wanted to focus on how these experiences of community may have changed in recent years, and how people would like to see them change, as well as delving into what books and media have brought comfort in difficult times.

Today’s guest is Catherine Lundoff. I know her best as the driving force behind Queen of Swords Press and a fellow tea aficionado, but she’s also an author of speculative fiction and erotica, as well as a LGBQIA advocate. When it comes to building community and putting one’s money where one’s mouth is, Catherine is a shining example.

( Interview with Catherine Lundoff )

Photo credit: Ben Zvan

Catherine Lundoff is an award-winning writer, editor and publisher. She owns and operates Queen of Swords Press, a Minneapolis-based genre fiction publishing company and is a recipient of a 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Writing Grant. Blood Moon is the second volume in her Wolves of Wolf’s Point series. Her other books include Silver Moon, Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories and Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic and as editor, Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space). She is also the author of over 100 published short stories and essays which have appeared in such venues as Fireside Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, the SFWA Blog, Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives, American Monsters Part 2 and such World of Darkness anthologies and games as Wraith: Haunting Shadows, Vampire the Masquerade: The Cainite Conspiracies and Wraith: Ghosthunters. In addition, she teaches writing classes at the Rambo Academy and Springboard for the Arts and she will be the Author Guest of Honor at Marscon 2022 in Minneapolis. Websites: www.catherinelundoff.net and www.queenofswordspress.com