Ellen Galford

Ellen Galford is an American-born Scottish writer. She was born in the US and migrated to the United Kingdom in 1971, after a brief marriage in New York City. She came out in the mid-1970s. She has lived in Glasgow and London and now lives in Edinburgh with her partner. She is Jewish. Her works include four lesbian novels:

Moll Cutpurse, Her True History (1984) The Fires of Bride (1986) Queendom Come (1990) The Dyke and the Dybbuk (1993)

Galford was involved in recording Edinburgh's LGBT community history for the Remember When project.

Awards Winner of the 1994 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian and Gay Humor Finalist for the 1995 American Library Association Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Award for Literature