Short Story Writers from the LGBTQ Community

Belgium

• Albert Russo

Canada

• Wes Funk
• Jane Eaton Hamilton
• Peter McGehee
• Shani Mootoo
• Patrick Roscoe
• Aren Tulchinsky
• Anuja Varghese
• David Watmough
• A.C. Wise
• Daniel Zomparelli

Chile

• Jose Donoso

Denmark

• Martin Elmer

Great Britain

• E.M. Forster
• David Garnett
• Torsten Hojer
• Amy Lame
• Sue Sanders
• W. Somerset Maugham
• Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson

Greenland

• Niviaq Korneliussen

Iran

• Payam Feili

India

• Manil Suri

Ireland

• Brendan Behan
• Elizabeth Bowen
• Colm Toibin

Jamaica

• Thomas Glave

Kenya

• Binyavanga Wainaina

Kuwait

• Saleem Haddad

New Zealand

• Witi Tame Ihimaera-Smiler
• Katherine Mansfield
• Frank Sargeson

Nigeria

• Akwaeke Emezi

Poland

• Jacek Dehnel

Russia

• Nikolai Gogol

Scotland

• Jackie Kay

Somalia

• Diriye Osman

South Africa

• Koos Prinsloo
• Richard Rive

The Netherlands

• Jacob Van Hattum

United States

• Kathy Acker
• Nahshon Anderson
• Jess Arndt
• Jane Bledsoe
• Chloe Caldwell
• Peter Cameron
• Dinah Cox
• Jameson Currier
• Bret Easton Ellis
• Edna Ferber
• Michael Graves
• Marissa Johnson-Valenzuela
• E.J. Levy
• Dan Lopez
• Carmen Maria Machado
• Marty Maguire
• Douglas A. Martin
• Chris McCormick
• Rahul Mehta
• Richard Bruce Nugent
• Claire O'Dell
• Lori Ostlund
• Robert Patrick
• Kimberly Reed
• Patrick Ryan
• Bryan Washington
• Chavisa Woods
• Hilary Zaid

See Also

• LGBTQ Romance Writers
• LGBTQ Science Fiction Writers
• LGBTQ Mystery and Horror Writers
• LGBTQ Authors of Children and Teen Books
• LGBTQ Magicians and Illusionists
• LGBTQ Writers and Illustrators of Comic Books
• Pulitzer Prize Winning LGBTQ Authors and Poets
• Notable LGBTQ Playwrights
• Prominent Biographers Who are LGBTQ
• LGBTQ Travel Writers
• Translators Who Identify as LGBTQ