Anne Laughlin is a Chicago-based writer from Chicago, Illinois. She is the author of seven novels of crime fiction, as well as many published short stories. She was named an emerging writer by the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2008 and 2014 and was awarded a writing residency at Ragdale. Anne has been awarded four Goldie Awards from the Golden Crown Literary Society as well as been short-listed three times for the prestigious Lambda Literary Awards ("The Lammys).