Contributors
Monica Casper is a feminist sociologist who studies the politics of human reproduction. She is originally from Chicago, lived on the West Coast for more than a decade, and is in the process of moving to Phoenix, where she will be Director of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University's New College. Monica is author of The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery and numerous articles, and editor of Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life. She is a busy mom to two young daughters, 6 and 4. When she is not teaching, she enjoys reading fiction, writing just about anything, gardening, hanging out with her cool women friends, and hiking with her Australian Shepherd, Bella.
Carolyn Gage is a lesbian-feminist playwright, author, activist, and performer. The author of six books and fifty-five plays, she specializes in work that foregrounds lesbians and survivors. Her work is available through her website at www.carolyngage.com.
Susan Kullmann is an 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, has studied Victoria Woodhull, and maintains a feministgeek website. Her current project, Blessed Are These Hands combines her interest in photography, computing and the history and contemporary meaning of women's lives.
Gabriele Meixner was an editor in the first presses of the German women's movement (Amazonenverlag, Frauenoffensive) and has co-translated works by Monique Wittig (Le corps lesbien, Les Guerilleres, Lesbian Peoples) and Adrienne Rich (The Dream of a Common Language). For more than twenty years she has researched and published on the subject of prehistoric art interpretation from a lesbian-feminist perspective. She is known for her book Frauenpaare in kulturgeschichtlichen Zeugnissen (Female Couples: Historical Evidence) (1995) and the companion exhibition which was shown in more than thirty German cities. She also wrote a biography of prehistory scholar Marie E.P. Konig, Auf der Suche nach dem Anfang der Kultur (In Search of the Beginning of Culture) (1999). Currently she is writing a biography of Erika Wisselinck, the feminist publisher and activist who translated Mary Daly's works into German.
Kathy Newman, now Kathy Miriam—having taken her middle name as a "proper" surname in 1986—is living, writing, making visual art, practicing yoga, and teaching philosophy, politics, and feminism in New York City. She is also involved with producing radical feminist radio at Pacifica Station, WBAI (The Joy of Resistance Show).
Barbara Mor, author of The Great Cosmic Mother, has published poetry, essays & experimental fiction in Sulfur, BullHead, Orpheus Grid, Studia Mystica; Brit journals Intimacy & Ecorche; The New MS & Trivia: a Journal of Ideas (1990-94). Online, “24/7 & Yr Dreams,” an essay-interview with Adam Engel, appear in www.dissidentvoice.org, June 14, 2004; “the secret pornographies of Republicans,” “What’s Left,” & “Preferably Knot” appeared in www.triviavoices.net, Dec. 2004; “A Song of Captain Joan” & “akaDarkness: on Kathy Acker is online at www.triviavoices.net, Feb 2007. Experimental fiction, “Oasis,”“Oasis2,” “Here,” & “Sea of Hunger” are online at www.ctheory.net, “A Thousand Days of Theory,” Aug 4, 05; April 4, 08; Dec 15, 05; & April 12, 06 respectively. Www.woodslot.net, April 4, 08 also links to the CTheory fiction, & also Trivia #1’s “the secret pornographies of Republicans.”
Martina Reisz Newberry's most recent book is Hunger (August 2007). She is also the author of After the Earthquake: Poems 1996-2006; Not Untrue & Not Unkind; and Running Like a Woman with Her Hair on Fire: Collected Poems. An Apparent, Approachable Light won i.e. magazine's Editor's Choice Poetry Chapbook Prize for 1998. She is the author of Lima Beans and City Chicken: Memories of the Open Hearth, a memoir of her father published by E.P. Dutton & Co. in 1989.
Born and raised in Germany, Beate Sigriddaughter came to the United States in her teens, and now divides her time between Denver and Vancouver. She has published short fiction, poetry and essays in numerous magazines and ezines, most recently Moon Journal, Borderlands, 13th Moon. Her pro-peace novel, The New Parcival, was published in the summer of 2007 and describes women's experiences in and around war. She is also fiction editor of Moondance, a women's literary ezine. In late 2006, she established the Glass Woman Prize in an attempt to honor and reward authentic women's voices. One of Trivia's recent contributors, Mary Saracino, won the second Glass Woman Prize.
Christine Stark is a feminist writer, activist, and visual artist of Anishinaabe, Cherokee, and European heritage. Her work has appeared in numerous periodicals and books, including Poetry Motel, Poetry Midwest, Our Choices Our Lives, Off Our Backs and others. She is a co-editor (along with Rebecca Whisnant) of Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography. She teaches writing, literature, and humanities at a community college in northern Minnesota.
Laura E. Tanner is Professor of English at Boston College, where she teaches classes on Literature and Social Change, Contemporary American Women Writers and Twentieth-Century Fiction. She has written on a variety of social issues in literary and cultural contexts, including race, gender, violence, illness and aging. Her second book, Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death, was published in 2006 by Cornell University Press.
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.
Leonore Wilson lives a rather hermetic life in the wilds of Northern California. Her most fulfilling conversation this week was a nearly 10-minute hi/grr-r chat with a native gray fox (an exceptionally beautiful vixen with a lot on her mind). Leonore taught eighteen years at Napa Valley College and recently had a guest lecturer/professor stint at a private university in San Francisco. Her work has been in TRIVIA, Quarterly West, MAGMA, Third Coast, Madison Review, etc. She has been awarded fellowships and grants for her writing. Right now her main priority is to save her fourth generation female-owned ranch from encroaching land grabbers who don't realize water is gold.
