Felix Ketay, a 25-year-old Los Angeles dyke, has her foundations shaken when she's ditched by her pomosexual girlfriend and then gay-bashed on the streets of West Hollywood.

Felix's old-school lesbian aunt, Anna Lisa Hill, ran away from home in 1965 at age nineteen and ended up in Lilac Mines, a town in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills with a small but tight-knit butch/femme community.

When Felix joins her aunt in Lilac Mines hoping to discover a place of respite, Anna Lisa proves stand-offish. Finding an authentic history is never easy, but Lilac Mines—with its abandoned mines, unknowable secrets, and the occasional quirky-cute thrift store employee—might not be such a bad place to try. (Manic D Press, 2009)

A novel composed of intersecting stories about people who live in Los Angeles. From an immigrant garment worker, struggling to exist in an often cruel city, to a lonely foster child who uses arson to express himself, Klein’s novel delicately and deftly probes the inner lives of her compelling cast of characters. (City Works Press, 2006)

Since 2018, Cheryl has served as a co-editor and monthly(ish) columnist for MUTHA Magazine. Her column, Hold it Lightly, covers topics ranging from transracial adoption to pandemic parenting and personal pet peeves (camping, YouTube).