Elegant tomboys, academic femmes, small town kisses, and international dykes; road trip encounters and scenes from a straight bar; questions arising from an in-between culture; the music of travel and hotel room orgasms. Crossing race, culture, and gender constraints, No Margins leads the reader through the lushness of lesbian life and the vastness of Canadian experience.No Margins is a stellar short fiction collection featuring fifteen of Canada's finest contemporary writers, all of whom include lesbian identity as a piece of their selves and their work. These highly acclaimed authors were selected to convey the places we currently inhabit and the future we are forging. The contributors have included notes to accompany their work, thus sharing the creative process and speaking on the politics of lesbian writing. No Margins is an unprecedented anthology, reflecting an esteemed gathering of women who are currently shaping Canadian literature.Featuring the work of: Luanne Armstrong • Dionne Brand • Nicole Brossard • Emma Donoghue • Marion Douglas • Anne Fleming • Jane Eaton Hamilton • Lydia Kwa • Larissa Lai • Ann-Marie MacDonald • Daphne Marlatt • Shani Mootoo • Elizabeth Ruth • Karen X. Tulchinsky • Marnie Woodrow

Catherine Lake is the editor of QPress, an Insomniac Press imprint, and lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Nairne Holtz is a fiction writer who lives in Montreal with her lover and miniature dogs. She co-edited No Margins: writing canadian fiction in lesbian (Insomniac, 2006), which has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. The Skin Beneath is her first novel.

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"These lesbian writers carry many other labels they do not share in ethnicity, politics, and artistic convictions, which may be more important to some of them. All of them, however, agree by appearing here to join in making the rich lesbian contributions to our literature visible. Here are fifteen grand appetizers for the feast of good books these writers have already served us and they promise more to come." — Jane Rule, author of Desert of the Heart and This Is Not For You