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Dec 01, 1975 48 years old
American writer
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About Dena Hankins
- Dena Hankins (born 1975) is an American novelist and short story author, best known for queer and transgender erotic romance.
- Her short stories have been published in several erotica anthologies, including Best Lesbian Romance of the Year 2015 edited by Radclyffe. Hankins' work is part of a growing trend to feature queer romance that is outside of the "issues" books that were once more common.
- Publisher's Weekly called her novel Blue Water Dreams, featuring a love story between a queer cisgender woman and a transgender man, an "exciting debut", and Lambda Literary Review included Blue Water Dreams among "new and noteworthy" LGBT books.
- Literary blog Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews chose Blue Water Dreams for inclusion in its "Best of 2014" top ten list.
- The American Library Association found her book to be "well within the expectations of the romance genre, albeit with an aypical male lead."Hankins' second novel, Heart of the Lilikoi, features an erotic romance between a cisgender lesbian construction contractor and a masculine genderqueer solar energy scientist in the midst of sabotage, murder, and the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
- Publisher's Weekly called Heart of the Lilikoi an "intriguing contemporary", "strong and satisfying" with "intensely vivid erotic encounters".Lysistrata Cove, published in September 2016, is a romance within a tale of high seas adventure while examining questions of artistic autonomy within the U.S.
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- It includes a BDSM relationship between a trans masculine sea captain and a polyamorous queer superstar chanteuse.
