Radclyffe

Radclyffe (real name Dr. Lenora Ruth Barot, born 1950) is an American author of lesbian romance, paranormal romance, erotica, and mystery. She has authored multiple short stories, written fan fiction, and edited numerous anthologies. Radclyffe is a member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame and a founder of the Golden Crown Literary Society. She has won numerous literary awards, including the RWA/GDRWA Booksellers' Best award, the RWA/Orange County Book Buyers Best award, the RWA/New England Bean Pot award, the RWA/VCRW Laurel Wreath award, the RWA/FTHRW Lories award, the RWA/HODRW Aspen Gold award, the RWA Prism award, the Golden Crown Literary Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. She is a 2003/04 recipient of the Alice B Readers Award for her body of work. In 2014, the Lambda Literary Foundation awarded Barot with the Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist award acknowledging her as an established author with a strong following and the promise of future high-quality work. In 2015 she was a featured author in the award-winning documentary film about the romance writing and reading community, ''Love Between the Covers'', from Blueberry Hill Productions. In 2019 she was named a Trailblazer in Romance by the Romance Writers of America, for her works of LGBTQ+ fiction. In 2021, she was named one of ''The Advocate'''s Women of the Year, and in 2022, she was named to the Out100. In April 2025, Radclyffe was named to the 2025 Curve Power List, which "celebrates LGBTQ+ women and nonbinary individuals making seismic shifts in North America-shaping culture, policy, and social change."

Barot founded the independent LGBTQ+ publishing company Bold Strokes Books in 2004, whose mission is to publish quality works of LGBTQ+ fiction and to create visibility and opportunities for own-voices authors. She has given many workshops on the craft of writing, both face-to-face and online, to authors at all stages of development.

She lives with her wife, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Dr. Lee Ligon, in Johnsonville, New York.

She is a double-boarded General/Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon who retired from medicine in 2004 to devote herself full-time to writing and publishing. Barot chooses not to type, instead using speech recognition software to write her books.

Early life and education

Barot was valedictorian of the June 1968 graduating class of Hudson Falls High School in Hudson Falls, New York, after which she attended the State University of New York at Albany.

Barot graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1976.

Literary awards and honors

Works

The Provincetown Tales

* Safe Harbor
* Beyond the Breakwater
* Distant Shores, Silent Thunder
* Storms of Change
* Winds of Fortune
* Returning Tides
* Sheltering Dunes
* Treacherous Seas

Honor Series

* Above All, Honor
* Honor Bound
* Love & Honor
* Honor Guards
* Honor Reclaimed
* Honor Under Siege
* Word of Honor
* Oath of Honor (crossover with First Responders Novels)
* Code of Honor
* Price of Honor
* Cost of Honor

Justice Series

* A Matter of Trust (prequel)
* Shield of Justice
* In Pursuit of Justice
* Justice in the Shadows
* Justice Served
* Justice for All

PMC Hospital Romances

* Passion’s Bright Fury (prequel)
* Fated Love
* Night Call
* Crossroads
* Passionate Rivals
* Unrivaled
* Perfect Rivalry
First Responders Novels
* Trauma Alert
* Firestorm
* Taking Fire
* Wild Shores
* Heart Stop
* Dangerous Waters

Rivers Community Romances

* Against Doctor’s Orders
* Prescription for Love
* Love on Call
* Love After Hours
* Love to the Rescue
* Love on the Night Shift
* Pathway to Love
* Finders Keepers
Red Sky Ranch Romances (with Julie Cannon)

* Fire in the Sky
* Wild Fire

Romances
* Innocent Hearts
* Promising Hearts
* Love’s Melody Lost
* Love’s Tender Warriors
* Tomorrow’s Promise
* Love’s Masquerade
* shadowland
* Turn Back Time
* When Dreams Tremble
* The Lonely Hearts Club
* Secrets in the Stone
* Desire by Starlight
* Homestead
* The Color of Love
* Secret Hearts
* Only This Summer
* Fearless Hearts (forthcoming 2025)
* When Love Comes Around (with Ronica Black; forthcoming 2025)

Short Fiction
* Collected Stories by Radclyffe
** Erotic Interludes: Change Of Pace
** Radical Encounters

* Stacia Seaman and Radclyffe, eds.:
** Erotic Interludes Vol. 2–5
** Romantic Interludes Vol. 1–2
** Breathless: Tales of Celebration
** Women of the Dark Streets
** Amor and More: Love Everafter
** Myth & Magic: Queer Fairy Tales

Midnight Hunters Series (Writing as L.L. Raand)
* The Midnight Hunt
* Blood Hunt
* Night Hunt
* The Lone Hunt
* The Magic Hunt
* Shadow Hunt
*Rogue Hunt
*Enchanted Hunt
*Primal Hunt

Edited Anthologies
* Best Lesbian Romance 2009
* Best Lesbian Romance 2010
* Best Lesbian Romance 2011
* Best Lesbian Romance 2012
* Best Lesbian Romance 2013
* Best Lesbian Romance 2014
* Best Lesbian Romance of the Year, Vol 1 (2015)
* In Deep Waters 1: Cruising the Seas
* In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip
* OMG Queer

Video

Radclyffe is featured in the documentary ''Love Between the Covers'', "An entertaining and inspiring look into the billion-dollar romance fiction industry and its powerhouse of female writers and readers, a sisterhood that’s pioneering the digital revolution while finding fortune, fulfillment, and a global community."

References

External links

Radfic ProductionsBold Strokes Books

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1950 births
University at Albany, SUNY alumni
21st-century American novelists
American romantic fiction writers
American women novelists
Lambda Literary Award winners
LGBTQ people from New York (state)
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alumni
Living people
People from Provincetown, Massachusetts
People from Glens Falls, New York
People from Washington County, New York
People from Rensselaer County, New York
American women romantic fiction writers
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American short story writers
American publishers (people)
American lesbian writers
Novelists from New York (state)