Grahn, Judy (1940–)
Grahn, Judy (1940–)
American novelist and poet. Born 1940 in Chicago, Illinois; raised in New Mexico.
Writer whose poetry and criticism focus on experiences of ordinary women and lesbian history and mythology, wrote The Common Woman (1969), The Work of a Common Woman (1980), The Queen of Wands (1982), Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (1984), The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition (1985), The Queen of Swords (1987), Mundane's World (1988), Really Reading Gertrude Stein (1989), and Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World (1993).
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