Diane’s Bio
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Diane Anderson-Minshall is author of the 2009 erotic thriller, Punishment With Kisses (a modern reworking of William Bayer’s 1984 book Punish Me With Kisses) and the co-author of the Blind Eye mystery series, including Blind Faith (2009), Blind Leap (2008) and Blind Curves (2008), . She’s also the Editor-in-Chief of Curve Magazine (the world’s best-selling lesbian magazine) and was the co-founder & former executive editor of Girlfriends Magazine and the co-founder & former editor/publisher of Alice Magazine.
The multiple award-winning journalist’s work has appeared in dozens of magazines, newspapers and websites including The New York Times, Passport, Film Threat, Utne Reader, Wine X, Teenage, Bitch, Seventeen, Femme Fatale, Diva, The Advocate, Bust, Natural Health, Venus, and E! online.
Anderson-Minshall is the former president of the board of directors for Bitch magazine and in 2006 was named one of PowerUp’s Ten Powerful Gay Women in Showbiz.
Her essays have also appeared in several anthologies including Reading The L Word: Outing Contemporary Television; Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine; Body Outlaws; Closer to Home: Bisexuality and Feminism; Young Wives Tales: New Adventures in Love and Partnership; 50 Ways to Support Gay & Lesbian Equality; On Our Backs Best Lesbian Erotica; and Tough Girls. Anderson-Minshall is the co-editor of the anthology Becoming: Young Ideas on Gender, Race and Sexuality.
Her work is studied and referenced at dozens of colleges across the nation in media, gender and women’s studies courses.
She and her co-pilot of 20 years—Jacob Anderson-Minshall (a transgender journalist, radio host of Gender Blender on Portland’s KBOO FM, and co-author the Blind Eye books)—divide their time between San Francisco, Idaho and Portland, Oregon, where they are active foster parents to two teenage boys.