contributors
Jane Caputi teaches Women's Studies at Florida Atlantic University. She has written several books, The Age of Sex Crime, Gossips, Gorgons and Crones, and Goddesses and Monsters, and just finished making an educational documentary, The Pornography of Everyday Life (for information e-mail jcaputi @ fau.edu). She hopes to get the opportunity to write a book on Cunctipotence.
Josephine Donovan is the author of Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions, Women and the Rise of the Novel, and several other books and numerous articles on women's literature and feminist critical theory. Most recently, her short story "At the Seashore" appeared in Between the Species (2005) and an article on feminism and the treatment of animals was published in Signs (Winter 2006).
Harriet Ellenberger 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. She lives in rural New Brunswick, where she and her partner are renovating an old farmhouse.
Susan Kullmann is a tarot magician. She publishes the Feminist Geek website as a research scholar at UCLA's Center for the Study of Women. She is an instructional technology consultant at Scripps College this year, and runs a professional web development company in Claremont, California. In addition to managing this Trivia website, she pours her creative energy into a book of photographs that capture what early 21th-century American women consider sacred, holy, an outward representation of their deepest selves.
Rhonda Pettit is an associate professor of English and Women's Studies at University of Cincinnati Raymond Walters College, where she teaches creative writing, literature, and composition. Her books include A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's Poetry and Fiction (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000), The Critical Waltz: Essays on the Work of Dorothy Parker (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2005), and Joy Harjo (Boise State University Western Writers Series, 1998). She is also co-editor of poetry for the Aunt Lute Anthology of U. S. Women Writers, Vol. I (Lisa Maria Hogeland and Mary Klages, general editors, Aunt Lute Books, 2004), and has published articles about the poetry of Adrienne Rich, Eavan Boland, Seamus Heaney, and others. Her own poems have appeared in literary journals and an anthology of Kentucky writers, Through the Gap.
Carol Prusa, an associate professor of painting at Florida Atlantic University, is represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami. Her work is in public collections including the Ft. Lauderdale Art Museum, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art and Arkansas Arts Center. Her work traveled in the Triennial Exhibition of German and American Artists curated by the American Museum of Arts and Design in New York City and her work was recently exhibited in Nicosia, Cyprus and Tokyo, Japan. She has received both the South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual Artists Fellowship and a State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship.
Verena Stefan is a Swissgerman writer. She left Switzerland in 1968 to live in West-Berlin and elsewhere in Germany for about thirty years before coming to Montreal. Her books include Häutungen / Shedding/ Mues, which was translated into eight European languages, and Rau, wild & frei (Rough, Wild & Free), a collection of comparative essays on the figure of the girl in literature. She was a cotranslator of The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich and Lesbian Peoples. A Dictionary by Monique Wittig and Sande Zeig. Her most recent publication is an essay "Here's Your Chance 'n enjoy the show," published in Language Crossings: Negotiating the Self in a Multicultural World. Ed. Karen Ogulnick (Teacher's Press, NY, 2000).
Renate Stendhal is a German-born, Paris-educated writer, writing coach and counselor for individuals and couples, based in Pt. Reyes Station and San Francisco. Among her publications are Sex and Other Sacred Games (co-authored with Kim Chernin), the Lambda Award-winning photobiography Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures, and most recently, True Secrets of Lesbian Desire: Keeping Sex Alive in Long-Term Relationship. She is working on a Paris memoir. For more information: www.renatestendhal.com.
Priscille Touraille is presently doing post-doctoral research in the eco-anthropology and ethnobiology lab of the National Museum of Natural History, Paris, on the relationship between gender thinking elaborated by human cultures and the appearance, in the course of evolution, of a certain number of sexed biological characteristics. Her 2005 doctoral thesis in social anthropology, “Sexual Dimorphisms in Body Size: Some Bloody Adaptations?” dealt with evolutionary explanations for differences in male/female body size, especially in height. Some of her poems have appeared in translation in Tessera.
Lise Weil moved to Montreal, PQ from Montague, MA in 1990 and has never regretted it. She was founding editor of Trivia, A Journal of Ideas, which grew out of the study group she describes in "Leverett." She is encouraged by the vitality of this online reincarnation of Trivia at a time when North American feminist culture seems to be operating mostly under the radar. She teaches in Goddard College's Individualized MA program.
Lenore Wilson is the mother of three sons in their early twenties. Her husband is a scientist. She lives in the wilds of Northern California. Like it or not, she comes from generations of rugged females keeping nature both fertile and sacred. She has won awards as well as fellowships for her work and has published in Poets Against the War, Madison Review, Sing Heavenly Muse, Rattle, Quarterly West, Third Coast, Pedestal, Laurel Review, Pif, DMQ Review, and Unlikely Stories.
