Antoinette Azolakov
# Antoinette Azolakov

Antoinette Azolakov (born 1944) is an American author.

In 1989, Skiptrace won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery. The following year, her novel The Contactees Die Young was a finalist for the same award.

## Biography

Azolakov was born in 1944 in Lufkin, Texas. She currently lives in Austin, Texas.

Aside from writing, Azolakov has "taught high school English and Latin, worked in an explosives plant, as a welder, as a gas station attendant, as a landscape gardener and as a pet sitter."

## Publications

* Cass and the Stone Butch (1987)
* Skiptrace (1988)
* The Contactees Die Young (1989)
* Blood Lavender (1993)
* Ghostly Voices: Thirteen Texas Ghosts (2010)
