Kathleen Bryson - Published Writing

Published Writing

In 2001, Bryson's first novel, Mush, which details a menage-a-trois between three Alaskan women and focuses heavily on the Alaskan environment's wilderness, scents, sounds, was published by Diva Books (London). The description of the fictional town "Little Novgorod" is very similar to Bryson's hometown of Kenai. Mush received glowing reviews from literary journals such as Mslexia and from the wider gay press.

In late 2008, Bryson's second novel, Girl on a Stick, an urban novel detailing the breakdown of an ex-pat American woman's relationship, and featuring religious visions of the Virgin Mary atop the No. 38 Bus, was published by She Devil Press (an imprint of the San Francisco-based cutting-edge press Suspect Thoughts), and, like Mush, received positive reviews. She had written a shorter novel at the same time as writing Girl on a Stick, the Douglas Adamsesque He's Lucid (like her first novel Mush, set in Alaska, although far in the future in a landscape devastated by global warming). She was offered a two-book deal for these works in early 2005 by Suspect Thoughts Press.

Bryson has had numerous literary short stories published in various anthologies, including "The Day I Ate My Passport". Published in 2000 in the Lambda Award-winning collection The Diva Book of Short Stories, the story touches on her experiences of injustice at the hands of the British immigration system.

Bryson is represented by Laura Morris of the Laura Morris Agency.