Catherine Lundoff is the publisher at Queen of Swords Press, a small press which specializes in fantasy, science fiction and horror with LGBTQ+ protagonists. She is the author of three novels, including Blood Moon (Queen of Swords Press, 2021) and Silver Moon (Queen of Swords Press, 2017) and five collections of short fiction including Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories (Queen of Swords Press, 2017) and Unfinished Business: Tales of the Dark Fantastic (Queen of Swords Press, 2019). She has also edited or co-edited three anthologies including Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space) (Queen of Swords Press, 2018).
Her essay on Joanna Russ’s Alyx stories is forthcoming in New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine (2025) and she has a new short story forthcoming on Heather Rose Jones’s Lesbian Historic Motif Project. Her short fiction has appeared in such venues as Queer Weird West Tales (LIBRAtiger, 2022), Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives Vol. 3 (Belanger Books, 2022), Haunting Shadows: A Wraith 20th Anniversary Anthology (Onyx Path Publishing, 2020) and Fireside Magazine (2019). She has also had essays published in such venues as Divergent Terror: At the Crossroads of Queerness and Horror (Off Limits Press, 2022), My Wandering Uterus: Tales of Traveling While Female (2018) and Nightmare Magazine: Queers Destroy Horror (2015).
Catherine is a recipient of a 2025 Alice B. Readers Appreciation Award, a juried award for an author’s body of work, and a finalist for the 2024 Innovative Voices Award, given by the Independent Book Publishers Association. She has taught at the Loft Literary Center, Clarion Online, the Novel in Progress Bookcamp and the Rambo Academy. She is a transplanted Brooklynite who lives in scenic Minnesota with the two cats who own her. Her late wife, Jana Pullman, was an acclaimed book artist and bookbinder.