Notes on contributors
Issue 1 - December 2004
Louky Bersianik is the author of L 'Euguélionne (1976),
considered the first great feminist novel of
Quebec
. An English translation, The Eugelionne, appeared in 1982 . In 1979,
she spent a year in
Crete
to write Le Pique-nique sur l'Acropole (Picnic on the Acropolis).
Her latest novel, Permafrost, appeared in 1997. She has written several
books of poetry and published numerous essays, including "Les Agénésies
du vieux monde" (1982) ("Agenesias of the
Old World
," a translation, appeared in Trivia 7). "For
me," she has written, "the question of political
engagement overlaps with the question of writing.
One is always engaged in one's
own consciousness."
Harriet Ellenberger was a founding member of the
Charlotte
(
North Carolina
,
USA
)Women's Center (1971), co-founded the lesbian feminist journal Sinister Wisdom with Catherine Nicholson in 1976, and was a founding member of L'Essentielle, a bilingual feminist bookstore in
Montreal
(1987) , and published a small feminist journal on the web called She Is Still Burning (2000-3). She now lives in
Saint John
,
New Brunswick
.
Elissa Jones lives and writes in
Saratoga Springs
,
NY
. She is an avid listener and observer of women's stories
and life experiences. Her current project is
finishing a novel that questions women's use of violence as a means of
reclaiming power. In a climate
of right-wing fundamentalism, she tries to be
a dedicated liberator of feminist voices.
Barbara Mor, author of The Great Cosmic Mother, has published poetry, essays & experimental
fiction in Sulfur, BullHead, Orpheus Grid, Studia
Mystica, Brit journals Intimacy and Ecorche, The
New MS and Trivia (1990-94), and online Dissident Voice.
Since the demise of the original Trivia she has not appeared
in any feminist venue, and longs for the Old
Days of feminist political/cultural feral thought,
before everyone got afraid to say what was
not Certified OK by the various sisterhood
clubs. "Women writers
must utter the most verboten things, root truths
sublime & terrible,
and not have them censored as unPC, 'too angry,'
'too violent,' or
(ye Goddess!) 'too explicit.' "
Rhonda Patzia has worked as a professional portrait photographer for many years and also has earned a Master of Arts degree in Embodiment Studies and Transformative Language Arts from
Goddard
College
. In addition to her photography work, she facilitates writing workshops, most often for women with multiple sclerosis. Her current project, Bodies in Focus, is a photography exhibit of women in various stages of nakedness, accompanied by the writing of individual subjects. The project’s combination of words and images offers her portrait subjects a new and intense experience of themselves as bodies and also offers other females, as well as culture in general, the gift of realistic images of women. Rhonda lives in
Pella
,
Iowa
with her partner, Mike.
Sara Wright is a teacher, a naturalist, an artist and a writer who lives with an assortment of animals, both wild and tame, in a small log cabin perched over a brook at the edge of a vanishing wilderness in western Maine. She is also a nature mystic, a woman who experiences the divine through daily encounters with Nature's trees, creatures, and landscape in her own back yard. She teaches Women's Studies at two local colleges and writes to tell stories and to stay sane.
Lise Weil lives in
Montreal
and teaches in
Goddard
College'
s IMA program. She was editor
of Trivia: A Journal of Ideas from 1982 to 1991. Her reviews,
translations and short fiction have appeared
in journals in both
Canada
and the
US
. She is currently at work on a memoir about the 70's and
80's titled "In Search of Pure Lust."
