Judy Grahn

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Judy Grahn (born July 28, 1940 in Chicago ) is an American author.

Grahn was born in Chicago and currently lives in California. She writes poems and novels in English. Grahn was a member of the Gay Women's Liberation Group , the first lesbian feminist organization on the west coast of the United States, founded in 1969.

The organization opened a bookstore and publisher The Women's Press Collective (WPC), specializing in books for women. WPC began publishing in Oakland in 1969 and lasted until 1978. WPC's published books included A Woman is Talking to Death , Lesbians Speak Out and Edward the Dyke . In 1990 she was awarded the Lambda Literary Award as editor of Really Reading Gertrude Stein .

Grahn is the assistant director of the Women's Spirituality MA program and the program director of MFA in Creative Inquiry at the New College of California . Grahn also initiated the academic journal Metaformia .

Works (selection)

poetry
  • Edward the Dyke and Other Poems , 1971
  • A Woman is Talking to Death , 1974
  • She Who , 1977
  • The Queen of Wands , 1982
  • The Work of a Common Woman: Collected Poetry (1964-1977) , 1984
  • The Queen of Swords , 1990
Other publications include i.a. a.
  • Ella in a Square Apron, Along Highway 80 , 1971
  • Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (1990 on the history of LGBT culture) (received the Stonewall Book Award )
  • Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World , 1994
  • Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition , 1985
  • Mundane's World , 1988

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personal data
SURNAME Grahn, Judy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago