Ellen Galford is an American-born

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 Scottish

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 writer

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. She was born in the US and migrated to the UK

United Kingdom

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 in 1971, after a brief marriage in New York

New York

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. She came out

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 in the mid-1970s. She has lived in Glasgow

Glasgow

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 and London

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 and now lives in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

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 with her partner

Civil partnerships in the United Kingdom

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. Her works include four lesbian

Lesbian

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 novels:

• Moll Cutpurse, Her True History (1984)
• The Fires of Bride (1986)
• Queendom Come (1990)
• The Dyke and the Dybbuk (1993)

Galford was involved in recording Edinburgh's LGBT

LGBT

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 community history for the Remember When project.

Awards

• Winner of the 1994 Lambda Literary Award
  Lambda Literary Award
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   for Best Lesbian
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   and Gay
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   Humor
• Finalist for the 1995 American Library Association
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   Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Award for Literature
  Stonewall Book Award
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Fans wonder why she has remained silent and not published any new work since the late 1990's.