Lisa Davis's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, Sister & Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives together, Queer View Mirror 2, New York Sex, Early Embraces II.

With a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, she has taught in the State and City University systems of New York, and frequently publishes translations from Spanish--most recently in the Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction.

For more information and a different angle on the world of Under the Mink, see Davis' essay "The Butch as Drag Artiste: Greenwich Village in the Roaring Forties" in Joan Nestle's The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, and the short story "Bubbles and Buddy" in the anthology Set in Stone (Alyson, May 2001).