Radclyffe

{{hatnote|For the author of The Well of Loneliness, see Radclyffe Hall. It is not to be confused with Radcliffe (disambiguation).}}

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Radclyffe (real name Dr. Lenora Ruth Barot,{{cite web|url=http://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Lenora_Barot.html |title=Dr. Lenora Barot, MD – Plastic Surgeon in Voorhees, NJ – Plastic Surgery |publisher=Vitals.com |date= |accessdate=October 5, 2013}}{{Cite web |date=2012-06-30 |title=AfterEllen.com - A Survey of the Lesbian Fiction Publishing Industry … |url=https://archive.today/20120630025539/http://www.afterellen.com/archive/ellen/Print/2006/7/publishing2.html |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=archive.ph}} born 1950{{Cite web |title= WebVoyage|url=https://cocatalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?SC=Author&SA=Barot%2C%20Lenora%2C%201950%2D&PID=9JjgxQBX2VImozvu3Y98_D23kZQ40&BROWSE=1&HC=1&SID=7 |website=United States Copyright Office}}) 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.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.facebook.com/LoveBTCFilm/videos/1082950401787638/ |title=2.1K views · 42 reactions {{!}} LBTC Bonus Clip - Radclyffe and her partner on how they met {{!}} Radclyffe and her partner Lee told us this story of how they met. 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Spoiler: it involves The X-Files! :) Love Between the Covers is now available on... {{!}} By Love Between the Covers {{!}} Facebook |language=en |access-date=2025-04-21 |via=www.facebook.com}} Radclyffe is a member of the Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame{{cite web|title=Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame|url=http://sasfest.org/hall-of-fame|accessdate=18 January 2015|archive-date=January 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118071914/http://sasfest.org/hall-of-fame|url-status=dead}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Award Winners - Golden Crown Literary Society |url=https://www.goldencrownliterarysociety.org/awards |accessdate= |website=www.goldencrown.org}}{{cite web |title=Lambda Literary Awards |url=https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/lammys-directory-1988-present/ |url-status=live |archive-url= |archive-date= |accessdate= |website=lambdaliterary.org |publisher=Lambda Literary}} 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.{{cite web|title=Lambda Literary Awards - Mid-Career Novelist Prize|url=http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/mid-career-novelist-prize/|website=lambdaliterary.org|accessdate=18 January 2015|archive-date=January 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112062434/http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/mid-career-novelist-prize/|url-status=dead}} In 2015 she was a featured author in the award-winning documentary film about the romance writing and reading community, Love Between the Covers,{{Cite web |title=Love Between the Covers |url=https://www.lovebetweenthecovers.com/ |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=Love Between the Covers |language=en-US}} 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.{{Citation |title=Radclyffe - RWA Romance Trailblazer, July 26, 2019 {{!}} The Romance Writers of America honored Radclyffe as a romance trailblazer at this year's RITA Awards. {{!}} By BOLD STROKES BOOKS {{!}} Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/BoldStrokesBooks/videos/radclyffe-rwa-romance-trailblazer-july-26-2019/480866022715302/ |language=en |access-date=2022-08-18}} In 2021, she was named one of The Advocate's Women of the Year,{{Cite web |date=2021-04-13 |title=A Salute to Amazing LGBTQ+ Women of 2021 |url=https://www.advocate.com/exclusives/2021/4/13/salute-amazing-lgbtq-women-2021 |access-date=2022-08-18 |website=www.advocate.com |language=en}} and in 2022, she was named to the Out100.{{Cite web |title=Out100 2022: LGBTQ+ Literary and Publishing Stars |url=https://www.out.com/print/2022/10/26/out100-2022-lgbtq-literary-and-publishing-stars#rebelltitem13 |access-date=2025-04-30 |website=www.out.com |language=en}} 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."{{Cite web |date=2025-04-06 |title=Revealing the 2025 Curve Power List - CURVE |url=https://www.curvemag.com/articles/revealing-the-2025-curve-power-list/ |access-date=2025-04-21 |language=en-US}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/meet-publisher-len-barot |title=Meet Publisher Len Barot |publisher=Ninc.com |date=September 1, 2010 |accessdate=October 5, 2013 |archive-date=October 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006141238/http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/meet-publisher-len-barot |url-status=dead }} 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.Patricia Farrell (October 7, 2004) [http://www.provincetownbanner.com/eazy-media/3b2d7d758b2ef274956fb866046a5532/20686.pdf Plastic surgeon by day] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051227054940/http://www.provincetownbanner.com/eazy-media/3b2d7d758b2ef274956fb866046a5532/20686.pdf |date=December 27, 2005 }} Provincetown Banner. Retrieved on May 26, 2007.

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.{{cite web|url=http://fultonhistory.com/newspaper%2010/Glens%20Falls%20NY%20Post%20Star/Glens%20Falls%20NY%20Post%20Star%201969%20Jan-%20Jun%20Grayscale/Glens%20Falls%20NY%20Post%20Star%201969%20Jan-%20Jun%20Grayscale%20-%200781.pdf |title=The Post-Star, Glen Fall, New York : Monday, February 17, 1969 |publisher=Fultonhistory.com |accessdate=October 5, 2013}}

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

Literary awards and honors

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!Year

!Work

!Award

!Result

!Ref.

2024

|Fire in the Sky

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Contemporary Romance (with Julie Cannon)

|Winner

2022

|Unrivaled

|Golden Crown Literary Award finalist

|Finalist

2020

|Cost of Honor

|RWA/GDRWA Booksellers' Best Award

|Winner

2018

|Secret Hearts

|RWA/Orange County Book Buyers Best Award

|1st place

|{{Cite web |date=2016-12-15 |title=BBB Past Winners |url=http://ocromancewriters.org/contests/book-buyers-best/past-winners/ |access-date=2022-01-17 |website=Orange County Romance Writers |language=en-US}}

rowspan="3" |2017

|The Color of Love

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Traditional Contemporary Romance

|Winner

|{{Cite web|title=Award Winners for Traditional Contemporary Romance|url=https://www.goldencrown.org/page/TradRomWinners?&hhsearchterms=%22radclyffe%22|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Golden Crown Society}}

rowspan="2" |Heart Stop

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for Romance

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|title="Heart Stop" is a 2017 Foreword INDIES Finalist|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/heart-stop/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

Foreword Reviews' INDIES for LGBT Fiction

|Finalist

2016

|Price of Honor

|RWA/Orange County Book Buyers Best for Suspense & Mystery with Romantic Elements

|1st place

rowspan="6" |2014

|Dr. James Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize

|Winner

|{{Cite web|last=Inciarte|first=Gustavo|date=2014-04-29|title=Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist and Emerging Writer Winners Announced?|url=https://queermeup.com/culture-2/outstanding-mid-career-novelist-emerging-writer-winners-announced%E2%80%8F/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=QUEER ME UP|language=en-US|archive-date=January 18, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118182425/https://queermeup.com/culture-2/outstanding-mid-career-novelist-emerging-writer-winners-announced%E2%80%8F/|url-status=usurped}}{{Cite web|last=Molloy|first=Parker Marie|date=2014-04-29|title=Lambda Literary Foundation Honors Four Prominent LGBT Writers|url=http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2014/04/29/lambda-literary-foundation-honors-four-prominent-lgbt-writers|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Advocate|language=en}}

Against Doctor's Orders

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for Romance

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|title="Against Doctor's Orders" is a 2014 Foreword INDIES Finalist|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/against-doctors-orders/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

Best Lesbian Romance

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Anthology/Collections

|Winner

|{{Cite web|title=Award Winners for Anthology/Collections (Non-Erotica)*|url=https://www.goldencrown.org/page/AnthCollWinners?&hhsearchterms=%22radclyffe%22|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Golden Crown Literary Society}}{{Cite web|title=Award Winners of 2014|url=https://www.goldencrown.org/page/2014Winners|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Golden Crown Literary Society}}

Code of Honor

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Romantic Suspense/Intrigue/Adventure

|Winner

Homestead

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Traditional Contemporary Romance

|Winner

Myth and Magic

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for LGBT Fiction

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|title="Myth and Magic" is a 2014 Foreword INDIES Finalist|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/myth-and-magic/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

rowspan="4" |2013

|Homestead

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for Romance

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|title="Homestead" is a 2013 Foreword INDIES Finalist|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/homestead/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

rowspan="2" |OMG Queer

|Over the Rainbow List for Middle/Early Young Adult Nonfiction

|Selection

|{{Cite web|date=2013-01-28|title=2013 Rainbow Book List|url=https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/archives/1025|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Rainbow Book List|language=en-US|archive-date=May 12, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512123158/https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/archives/1025|url-status=dead}}

Golden Crown Literary Award for Anthology/Collections

|Winner

Women of the Dark Streets

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Anthology/Collections

|Winner

rowspan="3" |2012

|Blood Hunt

|Volusia County Romance Writers' Laurel Wreath Award

|Winner

Crossroads

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for Romance

|Winner (bronze)

|{{Cite web|title="Crossroads" is a 2012 Foreword INDIES Winner|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/crossroads-1/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

OMG Queer

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for Gay & Lesbian

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|title="OMG Queer" is a 2012 Foreword INDIES Finalist|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/omg-queer/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

rowspan="3" |2011

|Best Lesbian Romance

|Lambda Literary Award for Anthology

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|title=Previous Winners|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/previous-winners-3/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}}

Firestorm

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for Romance

|Winner (silver)

|{{Cite web|title="Firestorm" is a 2011 Foreword INDIES Winner|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/firestorm/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

Trauma Alert

|IPPY Award for Romance

|Winner (silver)

|{{Cite web|title=2011 Medalists|url=https://ippyawards.com/109/medalists/2011-medalists|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Independent Publisher Books Awards|date=September 18, 2011 }}

rowspan="2" |2010

|In Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Erotica

|Winner

|{{Cite web|last=Gonzalez Cerna|first=Antonio|date=2010-02-18|title=21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2010/02/lambda-literary-awards-2008-2/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}}

Trauma Alert

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for Romance

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|title="Trauma Alert" is a 2010 Foreword INDIES Finalist|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/trauma-alert/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

rowspan="5" |2009

|Saints and Sinners Literary Hall of Fame

|{{Cite web|title=Radclyffe, author of Slicker than Slik|url=https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/authors/radclyffe-169|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Bold Strokes Books}}

Deep Waters 2: Cruising the Strip

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Erotica

|Winner

Justice for All

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for Mystery

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|title="Justice for All" is a 2009 Foreword INDIES Finalist|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/justice-for-all/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

The Lonely Hearts Club

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance

|Finalist

Romantic Interludes 2: Secrets

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for Short Story

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|title="Romantic Interludes 2: Secrets" is a 2009 Foreword INDIES Finalist|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/romantic-interludes-2-secrets/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

rowspan="4" |2008

|Erotic Interludes 5: Road Games

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Lesbian Erotica

|Winner

|{{Cite web|title=Award Winners of 2008|url=https://www.goldencrown.org/page/2008Winners|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Golden Crown Literary Society}}

In Deep Waters: Cruising The Seas

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Lesbian Erotica

|Winner

Night Call

|Foreword Reviews' INDIES for Gay & Lesbian

|Winner

|{{Cite web|title="Night Call" is a 2008 Foreword INDIES Winner|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/night-call/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Foreword Reviews|language=en}}

When Dreams Tremble

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|last=Gonzalez Cerna|first=Antonio|date=2007-04-30|title=20th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2007/04/lambda-literary-awards-2007-2/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}}

rowspan="3" |2007

|Erotic Interludes 4: Extreme Passions

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Lesbian Erotica

|Winner

|{{Cite web|title=Award Winners of 2007|url=https://www.goldencrown.org/page/2007Winners|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Golden Crown Literary Society}}

Promising Hearts

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Traditional Contemporary Romance

|Winner

Turn Back Time

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance

|Finalist

|{{Cite web|last=Gonzalez Cerna|first=Antonio|date=2006-04-30|title=19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2006/04/lambda-literary-awards-2006-2/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}}

rowspan="4" |2006

|Distant Shores, Silent Thunder

|Lambda Literary Award for Romance

|Winner

rowspan="2" |Justice Served

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Mystery / Action / Adventure / Thriller

|Winner

|{{Cite web|title=Award Winners of 2006|url=https://www.goldencrown.org/page/2006Winners|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Golden Crown Literary Society}}

Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery

|Finalist

Stolen Moments: Erotic Interludes 2

|Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Erotica

|Winner

|{{Cite web|last=Gonzalez Cerna|first=Antonio|date=2005-04-09|title=18th Annual Lambda Literary Awards|url=https://lambdaliterary.org/2005/04/lambda-literary-awards-2005/|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Lambda Literary|language=en}}

rowspan="2" |2005

|Fated Love

|Golden Crown Literary Award for Traditional Contemporary Romance

|Winner

|{{Cite web|title=Award Winners of 2005|url=https://www.goldencrown.org/page/2005Winners|access-date=2022-01-17|website=Golden Crown Literary Society}}

Justice in the Shadows

|Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Mystery / Action / Adventure / Thriller

|Winner

2004

|Alice B Readers Award

|Winner

|{{Cite web|title=Past Alice B Medal Winners|url=http://www.alicebawards.org/pastbios.html|access-date=2022-01-17|website=The Alice B Awards}}

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."{{Cite web|url=http://www.lovebetweenthecovers.com/|title=Love Between the Covers|website=Love Between the Covers|language=en-US|access-date=2019-02-24}}{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/ondemand/lovebetweenthecovers|title=Love Between the Covers|work=Vimeo}}