Ellen Galford is a writer, book editor, poet, and recipient of the 1994 Lambda Literary Award in Humor. She is the author of "Moll Cutpurse: Her True History" (1984), "Queendom Come" (1990), and "The Fires of Bride" (1986), which was later reproduced as a piece of alternative musical theatre by Red Rag—a radical women's theatre company—and toured the UK in the early 1990s. In addition to her lesbian novels, Ellen has published poetry, short fiction, essays, and nonfiction appearing in "The Slow Mirror and Other Stories: New Fiction by Jewish Writers," "Rainbow City: Stories from Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Edinburgh," "Yiddish Lost and Found: Evesdropping on the Ancestors," "Shofar" and many more. Much of Ellen's work explores themes of the historical and supernatural, including her collaboration with composer Phil Alexander on performance pieces centering Jewish and Scottish history. She lives in Edinburgh.