who we really are

Two girls one trench-coat

A co-writing, co-dynamic, co-duo

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Anna and Maya facetiously look away from the camera. Anna is a white woman with straight light brown hair and green eyes, in a flowery white dress. Maya is a brown round-faced woman with curly black hair and brown eyes, wearing a flowery black dress.
Anna, a white woman with light brown hair with blond highlights and green eyes is smiling welcomingly over her shoulder towards the camera. She is wearing a flowery white dress and her shoulders are bare. There are woods in the background.

anna catalano

Anna Catalano is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of NYGEL (Not Your Gran’s Erotic Lit), the author of many speculative and queer short stories, and the parent of cats Hugo and Gus Gus. 


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Maya is a round-faced brown woman with wireframe glasses. curly black hair and brown eyes, is smiling at the camera. In the bacground are bookshelves.

maya dworsky-rocha

Dr. Maya Dworsky-Rocha is a cultural anthropologist, which means she thinks people are kind of neat. She writes about real things, less real things, and outright lies, and lives in Oregon with her wife, who is a lumberjack.

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A woman with long, flowing red hair standing by a lake with trees in the background.
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A woman with long, curly red hair standing near a lake, facing sideways with her head slightly tilted back and eyes closed.
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