2025 Pride Party Authors

Join us Sunday, June 8 from 11am-5pm at The Little Gay Shop's Pride Party, and meet these amazing Texas-based authors!

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Sarah Cypher

Sarah Cypher is the award-winning author of The Skin and Its Girl (Ballantine 2023) and holds an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, where she was a Rona Jaffe Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction. She grew up in a Lebanese Christian family near Pittsburgh and lives in Austin, Texas, with her wife.

Gabby Gamez

Gabriella Gamez is a Mexican American author from South Texas. She writes about incredibly messy, well-meaning women trying their best and accidentally falling in love. When she's not writing, she can be found drinking copious amounts of coffee, wasting too much time playing video games, and obsessing over other people's books.

KB Brookins

KB Brookins is a Black queer and trans writer, educator, and cultural worker from Texas. KB’s poetry collection Freedom House (2023) won the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best First Book of Poetry. KB’s memoir Pretty (2024) won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and the Dorothy Allison/Felice Picano Emerging Writer Award. They are currently the ACLU of Texas Artist-in-Residence and a Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Follow KB online at @earthtokb.

Alicia Roth Weigel 

Alicia Roth Weigel is an activist and author working to improve the landscape for marginalized populations in the South and worldwide through her firm Intrepida Strategy. A human rights commissioner for the City of Austin and award-winning intersex advocate, her work is featured in Focus Features’s film Every Body—directed by Julie Cohen of the documentary RBG—and the memoir Inverse Cowgirl, published by HarperCollins. Alicia is passionate about promoting embodied autonomy through building culturally competent healthcare programs, legislating the advancement of gender equity and fostering a more socially and economically sustainable economy. While currently focused on consulting, she has also run political campaigns, launched NGOs, brokered public-private partnerships and raised funds to accelerate social change.

Evan Griffith

Evan Griffith is the award-winning author of the middle-grade novels Manatee Summer and The Strange Wonders of Roots and the picture book biographies Secrets of the Sea: The Story of Jeanne Power, Revolutionary Marine Scientist and Wild at Heart: The Story of Olaus and Mardy Murie, Defenders of Nature. His books have received the Green Earth Book Award and the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, been featured on several state award lists, and earned multiple starred reviews, among other honors.

He lives in Austin, Texas with a mischievous tuxedo cat and several overflowing bookshelves.

Erin Cotter

Erin Cotter writes young adult fiction. Originally from Buffalo, New York, she currently calls Austin home. When not writing, she spends time with her partner and pets, eating tacos, and searching for Golden-cheeked Warblers in the Texas Hill Country.

Jonny Garza Villa

Jonny Garza Villa is a product of the Great State of Texas, a Sagittarius sun and Capricorn everything else, a former very bad baseball player and former pretty good drag queen, and an award-winning author of contemporary young adult and new adult stories inspired by their own Tejane, Chicane, and queer identities including Fifteen Hundred Miles from the Sun, Ander & Santi Were Here, Canto Contigo, and Futbolista. They live in San Antonio.

Lucas Schaefer + Greg Marshall 

Lucas Schaefer’s debut novel, THE SLIP, is coming June 3, 2025 from Simon & Schuster. You can preorder THE SLIP here!

Lucas’s work has appeared in One Story, The Baffler, Slate and other publications. He holds an MFA from the New Writers Project at UT-Austin. Lucas lives with his family in Austin.

Greg Marshall was raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. A National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Prose, Greg is a graduate of the Michener Center for Writers. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays and has been supported by MacDowell and the Corporation of Yaddo. Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It is his first book.