Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture

Line, has been produced twice and was chosen for the juried performance festival Vancouver Women in View.

Lisa Michaels is the author of Split: A Counterculture Childhood and a contributing editor at the Threepenny Review. Her work has appeared in Glamour, Salon and the New York Times Magazine.

Cecily Schmidt is currently traveling the country with the man she loves, not searching for anything in particular, yet finding so much, trying to learn what it means to have acquired a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Iowa, cherishing clean water, drawing pictures and collecting words, staying in constant motion, checking out art therapy graduate programs and possible places to live when the time comes to be stationary again.

Elizabeth She is the author of the novel Shoulds Are for Saints: The True Life Adventures qfSuzy Le Speed. Her work has appeared in the 2 girls press anthology. Northwest Edge: New Writings from the Pacific Northwest. She is the former editor and publisher of MEOW, a Seattle arts journal.

Diane B. Sigman lives in Northern California. She wishes to express her profound love and gratitude to her husband, John, and to her parents, who generously permitted her to share their story.

Rivka K. Solomon continues to steer clear of turkey (‘Pass the tofu, please’). She is currently writing a memoir about growing up as the daughter of some of Boston ’s earliest feminist activists. She is also editing a book of short narratives by gutsy females, That Takes Ovaries! Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts.

Chelsea Cain spent her early childhood eating organic tomatoes off the vine on a commune in Iowa. The magic and hope of her girlhood continue to shape her. But she still hates carob. The author of Dharma Cirl: A Road Trip Across the American Generations (Seal, 1996), she works as a freelance writer and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Chelsea Cain

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