About
Kathy Anderson is the author of the short story collection, Vamoose: Stories, forthcoming from Vine Leaves Press in 2026. Her debut novel, The New Town Librarian (NineStar Press, 2023), was a finalist for Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for LGBTQ+ Fiction and a GOLDIE Award for Debut Novel from the Golden Crown Literary Society. Her debut short story collection, Bull and Other Stories (Autumn House Press, 2016), won the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards, Publishing Triangle's Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, and Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in Short Stories, as well as longlisted for The Story Prize.
A former public librarian, she worked for over 25 years in small town public libraries in southern New Jersey, the setting for The New Town Librarian. She lives with her wife in Philadelphia, PA.
Featured Work
Vamoose: Stories
Two lesbian librarians launch a life-changing friendship in the back of a pickup truck at Texas Gay Pride in 1989. The Queen of the Stilt Walkers fights off her larcenous brother to keep her home. A lesbian former foster child endures Kundalini yoga class in her quest for love. A murderous nun takes revenge on her mother for forcing her into the convent. Dogs keep biting a new lesbian couple and they don’t know why.
Filled with crackling humor and surprising loves, Vamoose is a propulsive collection of fifteen stories of women leading lives of self-determination, small triumphs, and subversive pleasures.
Other Works
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The New Town Librarian
2023
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Bull and Other Stories (Autumn House Press)
2016
Awards and Recognition
- Finalist, Foreword INDIES Award in LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Finalist, GOLDIE Award for Debut Novel, Golden Crown Literary Society
- Winner, Autumn House Press Fiction Prize
- Finalist, Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction
- Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards
- Finalist, Foreword INDIES Award in Short Stories
- Longlisted for The Story Prize
