Notes on contributors
Issue 2 - October 2005
Lee Maracle currently holds three positions at the University of Toronto: distinguished lecturer, teacher of creative writing in the English department, and First Nations writer in residence. Her published books include: Bent Box; Sojourner's and Sundogs; Ravensong; Bobbi Lee; Daughters Are Forever; Will's Garden; I Am Woman.
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. "Les Agénésies du vieux monde" is collected in La Main tranchante du Symbole (1990).
Deena Metzger is a novelist, poet, essayist, storyteller and healer. She is the author of Tree: Essays and Pieces; Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds, Intimate Nature: the Bond Between Women and Animals (co-editor with Brenda Peterson and Linda Hogan), the novels What Dinah Thought, The Other Hand, Doors: A Fiction for Jazz Horn, several books of poetry, and Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing. She lives in Topanga Canyon with her husband and the wolves Akasha and Blue.
Harriet Ellenberger has recently moved to rural New Brunswick, where she is getting to know her non-human neighbours (moose, lynx, deer, skunk, bat, frog, blackfly, coyote, eagle). She was co-founding editor of the print journal Sinister Wisdom from 1976 to 1981, and from 2000 to 2003 edited a small web publication called She Is Still Burning.
Kay Hagan is the author of Vow: The Way of the Milagro (2001), Fugitive Information: Essays from a Feminist Hothead (1993) and several other books. Since moving to New Mexico twelve years ago, she's become interested in anthropology, nuclear morality, and Dominionist Christianity. Recently, she emerged from the sudden parenting of a teen aged girl. She thinks the return of Trivia heralds either the death of patriarchy, or the Rapture.
Mercy Morganfield spent her childhood between Chicago and the Mississippi Delta. She has worked in Corporate America for the past 24 years and was one of the few African American women to advance to upper management at a major pharmaceutical company. “The Beauty Shop” is an excerpt from her graduate thesis, which explored relationship dynamics between African American women and White women in America. She recently left Corporate America and currently lives outside of Montreal.
Juliana Borrero, after very urban college days in Bogota, moved to Tunja, a small colonial city in rural Colombia, where public and private universities live together with cold thick-walled catholic churches, Andes mountains, a tapestry of farmlands and the ghost of whatever happened to the whole Muisca indigenous culture. She is a writer, translator, and teacher of literature and a kind of subversive embodied writing research she calls “Language and Peace”, at the public university there, where she lives with her partner and son. “The Other Shore” is the end of a narrative project called “Putting the Tongue back in the Body”. She is in love with language and dreams of an alter ego in Montreal. You can reach her at j-borrero@usa.net .
