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Dark Matter: Women Witnessing - December, 2015 Issue #3 - EXTINCTION / DEVOTION
Deena Metzger is a poet,
novelist, essayist, storyteller,
teacher, healer, and medicine
woman. She has taught and
convened community for
many years. Story is her
medicine. She is the author of
many books, including most
recently, the novels La Negra
y Blanca (2012 PEN Oakland
Josephine Miles Award for
Excellence in Literature),
Feral; Ruin and Beauty: New and Selected Poems; From Grief Into Vision: A Council;
Doors: A fiction for Jazz Horn; Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and
Practice of Healing; The Other Hand; What Dinah Thought, Tree: Essays and Pieces;
The Woman Who Slept With Men to Take the War Out of Them, and Writing For Your
Life. She has just completed a first draft of a new novel, A Rain of Night Birds.
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