Radclyffe
Radclyffe
American author
Radclyffe (real name Dr. Lenora Ruth Barot,[2][3] born 1950[4]) is an American author of lesbian romance, paranormal romance, erotica, and mystery. She has authored multiple short stories, written fan fiction,[5] and edited numerous anthologies.[6] Radclyffe is a member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame[7] and has won numerous literary awards, including the RWA/GDRWA Booksellers' Best award, the RWA/Orange County Book Buyers Best award, the RWA/New England Bean Pot award, the RWA/VCRW Laurel Wreath award, the RWA/FTHRW Lories award, the RWA/HODRW Aspen Gold award, the RWA Prism award, the Golden Crown Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award.[8][9] She is a 2003/04 recipient of The Alice B Readers Award for her body of work as well as a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society, Pink Ink, and the Romance Writers of America. In 2014, the Lambda Literary Foundation awarded Barot with the Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist award acknowledging her as an established author with a strong following and the promise of future high-quality work.[10] In 2015 she was a featured author in the award-winning documentary film about the romance writing and reading community, Love Between the Covers,[11] from Blueberry Hill Productions. In 2019 she was named a Trailblazer in Romance by the Romance Writers of America, for her works of LGBTQ+ fiction.[12] In 2021, she was named one of The Advocate's Women of the Year.[13]
Barot founded the independent LGBTQ+ publishing company Bold Strokes Books in 2004, whose mission is to publish quality works of LGBTQ+ fiction and to create visibility and opportunities for own-voices authors.[14] She has given many workshops on the craft of writing, and in 2013, she founded the Flax Mill Creek Writers Retreat[15] where she offers both face-to-face and online workshops to authors at all stages of development.
She lives with her partner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Dr. Lee Ligon,[6] in Johnsonville, New York.
She is a double-boarded General/Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon who retired from medicine in 2004[14] to devote herself full-time to writing and publishing. Barot chooses not to type, instead using speech recognition software to write her books.[16]