Downwardly mobile, the Berkeley grad makes her living by tutoring high school students. Carol is an idealistic, Berkeley-educated, Jewish lesbian living in Oakland, California. Risk is a beautifully told story that spans the years from the mid-eighties to the post-9/11 world. Risk is the longed-for follow-up from Dykewomon. It is firmly established as a classic text in the canon of lesbian literature.
Recommended for all collections.”- Library JournalĮlana Dykewomon’s extraordinarily well-received novel Beyond the Pale was first published in 1997 and won both the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award. “Truly great novels aren’t written very often, but Beyond the Pale deserves all the glowing adjectives available.”- Bay Area Reporter Compelling, honest and unselfconscious.”- The Toronto Star A work of remarkable importance.”- The Village Voice
“One of the most compelling novels I have ever read.
Her 1998 novel, Beyond the Pale, was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and in 2004, Riverfinger Women was selected by The Publishing Triangle as #84 on their list of 100 Best Lesbian and Gay Novels.Praise for Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon: Since passing on the role of editor to Akiba Onada-Sikwoia, Dykewomon has continued to publish novels, poetry, and short story collections. She held this position until 1995 (along with Caryatis Cardea, 1991 - 1994) and contributed to Sinister Wisdom, including the 1989 Jewish anthology issue, Tribe of Dina. In 1987, Dykewomon took over as editor for Sinister Wisdom. In 1981, she then published Fragments from Lesbos, a collection of poetry, as Elana Dykewomon, to further establish her Lesbian separatist identity. Her first novel, Riverfinger Women, was published in 1974, under her birthname, and her second, They Will Know Me By My Teeth, came out just two years later, under the name Elana Dykewoman.
in creative writing from the California Institute of Arts, and an M.F.A. She and her family moved to Puerto Rico when she was eight years old, and she returned to the United States to attend college, receiving a B.F.A. Elana Dykewomon - novelist, poet, essayist, and activist - was born on October 11, 1949, in New York City.
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