Pam Keesey

Pam Keesey is an American writer. She published three fantasy anthologies – Dark Angels (1993), Daughters of Darkness (1995), and Women Who Run with the Werewolves (1996) – and a history book, Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale. She is a two-time nominee for the Lambda Literary Award for Speculative Fiction.

Biography

Originally working at an A&W while in high school, Keesey worked at a public library and eventually a university library.^[1] She got a bachelor's degree from Hamline University and a master's degree from University of Bradford.^[2]

Keesey published two lesbian vampire anthologies, Dark Angels (1993) and Daughters of Darkness (1995).^[3] In 1996, she published Women Who Run with the Werewolves, an anthology of stories involving women werewolves.^[4] These three anthologies featured works from Suzy McKee Charnas, Sheridan Le Fanu, Ursula K. Le Guin, Charlee Jacob, Thomas Piccirilli, Cecilia Tan, and Melanie Tem.^[3][4] In 1997, she wrote Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale.^[5]

Keesey was nominated twice for the Lambda Literary Award for Speculative Fiction, for Dark Angels in 1996 and Women Who Run With Werewolves in 1997.^[6][7] She was a guest of honor at the first CONvergence in 1999.^[8]

Keesey worked as head librarian of the Resource Center of the Americas' Penny Lernoux Memorial Library.^[9] She also worked at Llewellyn Worldwide as a Spanish-language editor.^[10] She later worked in the tech industry, working as a senior technical writer for Microsoft and as a content manager for Amazon and Expedia.^[2]

Keesey is lesbian, which she had discovered after the anti-LGBT Save Our Children movement.^[11] As of 1995, Keeney was based in Minneapolis.^[3]

Bibliography

• (as editor) Dark Angels (1988)^[12]
• (as editor) Daughters of Darkness (1993)^[13]
• (as editor) Women Who Run with the Werewolves (1996)^[14]
• Vamps: An Illustrated History of the Femme Fatale (1997)^[5][15]