Kate Bolin

Fan
Name:	Kate Bolin
Alias(es):	katemonkey
Type:	writer, archivist, developer
Fandoms:	Angel, Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Life on Mars, Lord of the Rings, Roswell, X-Men, Smallville
Communities:
Other:	Dymph-No-Mania
URL:	http://dymphna.net
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Kate Bolin is a prolific fan author across a variety of fandoms. Her first fanfiction published online was in 1996, in the Babylon 5 fandom.

She originated the Dead Letters Challenge in 2001. She also ran the Secret Slasha exchange.

Example Fanworks

• Nancy Boy Hair Gel
• 18 Seconds -- widely recommended Ninth Doctor vignette
• Beauty -- Lord of the Rings short in response to The One Ring Challenge, in which Galadriel takes the Ring
• The Human Drama series. Early femslash for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the Willow/Cordelia pairing
• Time Turner -- Hermione-centric Harry Potter/Doctor Who crossover

Archivist and Developer

Kate supports the push for accessible fansites with her community access_fandom. She has run the UCSL since 1999, and is the archivist for the multifandom archive Silverlake. She also houses many sections of the BtVS Writers' Guild on her site dymphna, including History Lesson, an archive for historical slayers. Her personal archive is The Pearl.

She ran Small Town Girls, a Smallville femslash fanfic archive, from 2001-2003.

She runs CordySlash, Delenn Deserves Better!, Dead Letters, Fluent Fag, The Game of Life, History Lesson, Laconic, Loaded, Slightly Left of Venus, and Wake Up Gay!.

Archives/Challenges/Collections

Archives

As Archivist

The Pearl - personal archive

• UCSL since 1999
• Silverlake
• Dymphna.Net - BtVS Writers' Guild - History Lesson
• Small Town Girls (2001-2003)
• CordySlash
• Delenn Deserves Better!
• Fluent Fag
• The Game of Life
• Laconic, Loaded
• Slightly Left of Venus
• Wake Up Gay!

As Contributor

• Alara's Spiffy Magneto Page

Challenges

• Dead Letters