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Dena Hankins (born 1975) is an American novelist and short story author, best known for queer and transgender erotic romance. Her short stories have been published in several erotica anthologies, including ''Best Lesbian Romance of the Year 2015'' edited by Radclyffe. Hankin's work is part of a growing trend to feature queer romance that is outside of the "issues" books that were once more common. Publisher's Weekly called her novel ''Blue Water Dreams'', featuring a love story between a queer cisgender woman and a transgender man, an "exciting debut",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fiction Book Review: Blue Water Dreams by Dena Hankins. Bold Strokes (www.boldstrokesbooks.com), $16.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-62639-192-5 )〕 and Lambda Literary Review included ''Blue Water Dreams'' among "new and noteworthy" LGBT books.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New in September: Sarah Waters, Cookie Mueller, Christos Tsiolkas, Jericho Brown, Saeed Jones, Daisy Hernandez, and Douglas Ray )〕 Literary blog ''Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Out in Print:"Best of 2014" )〕 chose Blue Water Dreams for inclusion in its "Best of 2014" top ten list. The American Library Association found her book to be "well within the expecations of the romance genre, albeit with an aypical male lead." Hankins' second novel, ''Heart of the Lilikoi'', features an erotic romance between a cisgender lesbian construction contractor and a masculine genderqueer solar energy scientist in the midst of sabotage, murder, and the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Publisher's Weekly called ''Heart of the Lilikoi'' an "intriguing contemporary", "strong and satisfying" with "intensely vivid erotic encounters".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fiction Book Review: Heart of the Lilikoi by Dena Hankins. Bold Strokes (www.boldstrokesbooks.com), $16.95 trade paper (312p) ISBN 9781626395565 )〕 ==Personal life== Hankins studied English Literature at the University of Washington Seattle, graduating with a bachelor's degree in 1998. The following year she bought a boat with her partner, photographer James Lane, and began living aboard full-time. The couple sailed their small craft from Seattle to San Francisco, then across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hankins, Dena )〕 After a year living in Kerala, India, they returned to the United States to purchase a new sailing vessel and traveled the East Coast of the United States from Virginia to Maine.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Spotlight on: Cruising Editors Captain Dena Hankins and James Lane )〕 A Cruising Editor for ''The Waterway Guide'', Captain Hankins is certified to sail and charter intracostal waterways with a 50-ton Master License by the United States Coast Guard.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Spotlight on: Cruising Editors Captain Dena Hankins and James Lane )〕 Hankins chronicled her "Around the World in 80 Years" traveling adventures as well as pieces from her growing body of literary work at her blog, ''Sovereign Nations''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sovereign Nations )〕 Before launching her writing career Hankins worked for 8 years as a sex educator with Babeland, a Seattle-based feminist sex toy store.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dena Hankins )〕 In 2001 she was featured on HBO's Real Sex #26 as a demo model for a Babeland cunnilingus workshop.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HBO's Real Sex #26 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dena Hankins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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