contributors
Elizabeth Alexander grew up in Dallas and lives in Seattle, where she works as a freelance textbook writer and editor. Her creative work has appeared in Gargoyle, Archipelago, the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, and many other publications. Elizabeth spent her youth behaving and regrets it.
Elliott Femynye batTzedek is a Jewish lesbian writer who currently lives in Philadelphia.Two of her poems were published in the recent Sinister Wisdom special issue on grief, and she has work forthcoming in Poetica and The Harrington Lesbian Literature Quarterly. Her poems, essays, reviews, and cartoons have been published in Sinister Wisdom, Rain and Thunder, the online journal Awakened Woman, Lesbian Ethics, off our backs, Sojourner, The Lesbian Review of Books and other local and national Feminist journals and newspapers. Her essays have been reprinted in anthologies such as Gender Through the Prism of Difference (Oxford University Press), Lesbian Culture: An Anthology (Crossing Press) and Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Write About Class (Crossing Press). She has worked as an editor and free-lance writer, and currently teaches graduate courses in Children's Literature and Publishing and is the Curriculum and Collections Developer for a nonprofit that provides professional development for teachers in high-poverty urban schools.
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 Hawthorne is a poet, novelist, academic, activist and circus performer. Her books include poetry, The Butterfly Effect (2005) and Bird (1999), a novel, The Falling Women (1992/2003) and Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation and Bio/diversity (2002) based on her PhD. She has also edited numerous anthologies, the latest of which are September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives (2002, co-edited with Bronwyn Winter) and HorseDreams: The Meaning of Horses in Women’s Lives (2004, co-edited with Jan Fook and Renate Klein). She is co-founder with Renate Klein of Spinifex Press and a Research Associate in the Department of Communication, Culture and Languages at Victoria University, Melbourne. She has been published in literary, feminist and academic journals including Sinister Wisdom, Rain and Thunder, Ms Magazine, Off Our Backs, Tessera, Signs, WSIF, Canadian Women’s Studies and many others.
Hye Sook Hwang is a Native-Gyne of Korea who has crossed multiple boundaries, including those of country, language, religion, and culture. She is an advocate of Magoism, a trans-patriarchal gynocentric tradition of East Asia that venerates Mago as progenitor, originator, and ultimate sovereign. Previously, she translated and published the first two books of Mary Daly in Korean. After having written her Ph.D. dissertation, Seeking Mago, the Great Goddess: A mytho-historic-thealogical reconstruction of Magoism, an archaically originated gynocentric tradition of East Asia (Korea, China, and Japan), she now seeks her new vision of “cross-cultural gynocentric worlds” by writing, teaching, and speaking in many different contexts. She is currently based in southern California and has taught various courses in universities, including Cal Poly Pomona and Claremont Graduate University. (Contact: )
Susan Kullmann is a photographer, instructional technology consultant at Scripps College, and managing director of a web development company. She taught history and women’s studies at Cal Poly Pomona and CSU, Long Beach, and has written about Victoria Woodhull. Her current project, Blessed Are These Hands, combines her appreciation of capturing an instant in a photograph, her computer expertise, and a long-term professional and personal interest in the history and contemporary meaning of women’s lives.
Marguerite Rigoglioso is graduating this fall with her Ph.D. in humanities from the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she also earned her M.A. in philosophy and religion, with a concentration in women's spirituality. She is a faculty member at Dominican University of California, where she is assisting the development of a new program in women and gender studies and helping to establish women's spirituality as an undergraduate discipline. Ms. Rigoglioso has traveled in Europe and North Africa, researching ancient female divinities and priestesshoods. Her work has appeared in numerous academic journals and anthologies, including the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, where in 2005 she received honorable mention for the journal’s New Scholar Award for her pioneering paper on the Graeco-Roman cult center devoted to Persephone at Lake Pergusa in Sicily.
Mary Saracino, author of The Singing of Swans (Pearlsong Press 2006), offers Writing and the Art of Healing classes and teaches workshops on the Divine Feminine. The Singing of Swans was named a 2007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in the Spirituality category. Mary is also the author of No Matter What, Finding Grace, and Voices of the Soft-bellied Warrior. Her work has appeared in a variety of anthologies and journals, both online and in print. For more information about Mary visit www.marysaracino.com. To learn more about The Singing of Swans, visit www.pearlsong.com.
Ellen M. Taylor lives in Appleton, Maine and teaches at the University of Maine at Augusta. She has published her work in Puckerbrush Review, North American Review, Passages North, Sojourner, and a number of other literary journals. She also has two chapbooks, Humming to Snails (Moon Pie Press) and Letters from the Third World (Sheltering Pines). She lives with her husband Daniel, their dog Bella, and a clutch of Rhode Island Red Hens, Maria, Maxine, and Pizza.
Lise Weil teaches in Goddard College’s IMA program and is currently at work on a memoir chronicling the highs and lows of late-twentieth-century feminism as she lived them.
