Poets & Writers

Lambda Literary Looks to the Future

W Landers started in July as the new executive director of Lambda Literary, the Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting LGBTQ writers and literature, it represented a kind of homecoming. More than twenty years ago, when Landers was an MFA student at George Mason University, she worked at Lambda Rising, the bookstore in Washington, D.C., where the seeds of Lambda Literary germinated. In 1987 the bookstore’s owner, L. Page “Deacon” Maccubbin, published the first issue of the , which

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