Beyond the Pale

Elana Dykewomon

1997

Gutke found her journal at the bottom of her midwife’s bag and opened it for the first time that year:

Even with my talent for visions, I never would have guessed half of what happened. I suppose that’s part of why I started writing this diary in 1900, to see if an ordinary life had a pattern. Now I’m not sure that my life has been either ordinary…

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Elana Dykewomon

1949–2022

Elana Dykewomon was born in New York and grew up in Puerto Rico. She is an author, editor, lesbian activist, and instructor of English at San Francisco State University. Dykewomon edited the journal Sinister Wisdom from 1987 until 1995, and has written several novels as well as poetry and short stories. Dykewomon was nominated for the 2003 Stonewall Award and has received the Lambda Literary Association Award and the Publishers’ Triangle Award.

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