J.M. Redmann has published twelve novels featuring New Orleans PI Micky Knight. Her first book was published in 1990, one of the early hard-boiled lesbian detectives. She ha also published two books in the Nell McGraw series. She was awareded the 2025 Pinckley Prize for Distinguished Body of Work, one of the most prestiguios awards for women crime writers. She was also named a Trailblazer by the Golden Crown Literary Society.  Her books have won three Lambda Literary awards, a Publishing Triangle Joseph Hansen award, and two Goldie awards. THE INTERSECTION OF LAW & DESIRE was an Editor’s Choice of the San Francisco Chronicle and a recommended book of NPR’s Fresh Air. Two books were selected for the American Library Association GLBT Roundtable’s Over the Rainbow list and WATER MARK won a ForeWord Gold First Place mystery award. She is the co-editor with Greg Herren, of three anthologies, one of which, NIGHT SHADOWS: QUEER HORROR, was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson award.

Pinckley Prize for Distinguished Body of Work 2025 

Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer - 2026

Alice B. Medel - 2010

Saints and Sinners Literary Saint - 2006

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​​A Streetcar Named Shenanigans - 2026 - novella  co-written wih Rob Byrnes

1. The Smallest Day - 2025

   1. ​Nominated - Publishing Triangle Joseph Hansen award​​

   2. Nominated - Golden Crown award 

2. Transitory – 2023

   1. Winner – Publishing Triangle Joseph Hansen award

   2. Winner – Golden Crown award

   3. Nominated – Lambda Literary award

3. Not Dead Enough - 2019

4. The Girl on the Edge of Summer - 2017

   1. Nominated – Lambda Literary award

5. The Shoal of Time - 2013

6. Ill Will - 2012

   1. Winner – Lambda Literary award

7. Water Mark - 2010

   1. Winner – Golden Crown award

   2. Winner - Rainbow Award for LGBT Mystery

   3. Nominated - Lambda Literary award

8. Death of a Dying Man - 2009

   1. Winner – Lambda Literary award

9. Lost Daughters - 1999

   1. Nomintated – Lambda Literary award

10. The Intersection of Law and Desire - 1995

    1. Winner – Lambda Literary award

    2. Originally published by W.W. Norton

11. Deaths of Jocasta - 1992

    1. Nominated – Lambda Literary award

12. Death by the Riverside - 1990

    1. First published in 1990, one of the early lesbian PI.

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