Elana Dykewomon
Elana Dykewomon ( b. 1949 as Elana Nachman ) is an American, lesbian writer of Jewish origin. She is known for her novel Beyond the Pale (Eng. Sarah's daughters ).
Life
Dykewomon was born in 1949 as the daughter of a lawyer and a librarian in New York City. She grew up in New York City and Puerto Pico and studied art at Reed College in Portland (Oregon ). At the age of 21 she wrote her first novel, River Finger Women, which was published in 1974 under her birth name Nachman. For the release of her second book in 1976 she changed her name to Dykewoman, finally with the third book in 1981 Dykewomon. From 1987 to 1994 she worked as an editor of the journal Sinister Wisdom. Dykewomon currently lives in Oakland ( California ) and teaches at the English Department of San Francisco State University.
Works
- River Finger Women, Daughters, Inc., 1974
- They Will Know Me By My Teeth, short stories and poetry, Megaera, 1976
- Fragments From Lesbos, Diaspora Distribution, 1981
- Nothing Will Be As Sweet As the key, selected poems, Only Women Press, London, 1995.
- Beyond the Pale, Press Gang, Vancouver, BC, 1998 ( German Sarah's daughters, Pitchers & damage Berg, Berlin, 1999)
- Moon Creek Road, Spinsters Ink Books, 2003
- Risk, Bywater Books, 2009
Honors and Awards
The historical novel Beyond the Pale was honored in 1997 with the Lambda Literary Award and in 1998 with the Publishing Triangle Ferro - Grumley Literary Award.