I am a writer and the former managing editor at AfterEllen.com. My novel, Ash, a retelling of the “Cinderella” fairy tale, will be published by Little, Brown in Fall 2009.

Copyright 2008 Patty Nason

I was awarded the 2006 Sarah Pettit Memorial Award for Excellence in LGBT Journalism by the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association for my work at AfterEllen.com, where I have written about gender, race and class as it relates to representations of queer women on television.

In addition to AfterEllen.com, I have contributed to Logoonline.com, Curve, Wellesley, Girlfriends and Lesbian News. For select clips of my published work, go here.

I earned my B.A. in Economics and Chinese Studies at Wellesley College, my M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia at Harvard University, and my M.A. in Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. I have presented papers at the Society for Literature and Science and the Association for Asian American Studies. For more on my graduate academic research, go here.

To contact me, email mlo at malindalo.com.