Jane Fletcher (born August 1956) [1] is an English writer of lesbian speculative fiction. Her The Walls of Westenfort won the Golden Crown Literary Society's 2005 "Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror / Paranormal / Speculative" award, [2] and her The Empress and the Acolyte won its 2007 Speculative Fiction award. [3] In 2009, she received The Alice B Readers Award for career achievement. [4]
Her Temple Landfall was shortlisted for the Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror category of the 18th Lambda Literary Awards in 2006, [5] and her Wolfsbane Winter was shortlisted for the same category of the 23rd Lambda Literary Awards in 2011. [6] Her Lorimal's Chalice was shortlisted for the 2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel. [7]
Fletcher grew up in south east London, and has a degree in Physics (1980) from the University of Surrey. [1]