NANBEC: THE DYNAMIC DUO!
Nancy and Becky grew up in Madelia, a Minnesota prairie town. They reconnected at an all-school reunion in 1990, fell in love in 1993, became partners in 1994, were married in 2008, and soon will celebrate thirty-two years together. Between them, they have published eight books.
For Nancy and Becky, retirement means INSPIREMENT! Their Florida home bursts with playfulness and creativity. They have even made two movies together.
UPDATES FROM BECKY
Slow Bright Things is out! This sequel to the beloved novel A Light on Altered Land shimmers with humor, passion, and mature love as it explores the challenges of relationships and how exes can foster growth. It is available as a paperback and eBook from Amazon.
Fertile Betrayal is now available as an audiobook.
UPDATES FROM NANCY
Nancy's anthology On My Honor: Lesbians Reflect on Their Scouting Experience is now available as an audiobook.
Nancy co-edited and published At Sea on the Range: From Berkeley Radical to Arizona Homesteader, 1934-1948 by Josephine Alexander. This riveting memoir of Nancy's friend recounts Jo's fourteen years homesteading and ranching in the Arizona desert during the Great Depression. Jo returned to the Bay Area, where she became a writer and prize-winning journalist and eventually met Nancy.
At Sea on the Range is available in paperback and eBook. Winner of The Great Southwest Book Festival for Memoir (2025)
A January 23, 2026, article on Austraddle, "What We Can Learn from Lesbian Nuns" by Carolina Flores, Ph.D. says, "We should read [Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence] because these Boomer nuns have the exact wisdom we 2026 queers are starving for."
A February 18, 2026, article in the Philadelphia Gay Newsfeatures, "From 1976 to 2076: PGN's Past, Present and Future" focuses on the groundbreaking 1980 article "Lesbian Nuns: Closeted in the Cloister?" by Victoria Brownworth, who forty years later, wrote the foreword to Nancy's anthology On My Honor: Lesbians Reflect on Their Scouting Experience.
Nancy is the recipient of a 2026 Alice B Award for lifetime achievement in lesbian writing. Other recipients since 2004 are at Photo Gallery of Medal Winners - The Alice B Awards.
[Slow Bright Things cover by Robin Lewis; photo of Lake Superior by Becky Bohan]