Contributors’ Notes
Kathleen Bogan's work appears in journals including Confrontation, Seattle Review, Atlanta Review, Writers’ Forum, Earth’s Daughters and many others, and the anthologies The Muse Strikes Back, Prairie Hearts: Women Writers Writing About the Midwest, and Sirius Verse. She contracted CFIDS following a trip to East Africa in 1987, and her health forced her to retire from work as a national criminal justice policy consultant and Oregon state agency head in 1992. Andrew Corriveau is a freelance writer living on the East Coast. Susan Dion, PhD has received four Puffin Foundation grants to fund WRITE NOW, a free resource on coping with illness. In 1999, she had poems, essays, and reviews included in several publications. She's written many articles for CFIDS journals and newsletters. Kat Duff's book, The Alchemy of Illness, is available from Bell Tower Books. "The Dark Heart of Healing," a two cassette tape set based on the book, is available from Sounds True. Her essays have appeared in Parabola magazine. Eva Marie Everson currently writes for several ministries and publications. Eva is the co-author of Pinches of Salt, Prisms of Light. She is working on her second novel and a gift book. Kate Foran was a recipient of Manchester Community College's Outstanding Young Poet award in 1998. Last Spring, she was chosen to tour on the Connecticut Poetry Circuit as a Connecticut Student Poet. Her work has been published in literary journals such as Skywriters, Shapes and Common Ground Review. Nadine Goranson worked full-time before CFIDS, including work as a writing teacher, helping senior citizens to write their life stories. Diagnosed with CFIDS in 1994, she now spends her time caring for her family, reading, writing and resting. Susan Griffin is a writer, poet, essayist, lecturer, teacher, filmmaker, and Emmy-winning playwright. She was named by Utne Reader one of "100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life." Author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated A Chorus of Stones, as well as the bestselling Woman and Nature, Pornography and Silence, and The Eros of Everyday Life, Griffin’s latest books are What Her Body Thought, and Bending Home: New and Selected Poems. Phyllis Griffiths lives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She holds a BA from the University of Lethbridge in the field of Anthropology, which she put to use doing Heritage Conservation and Museum management before becoming severely disabled by CFIDS in late 1990. Gloria Kartiganer is an educator working on school reform and a theater artist. Dorian Key has published writing in Best Lesbian Erotica 1998, Wicked Women, On Our Backs, and Strategic Sex. Mayra Lazara was born in Marianao, Cuba, grew up in Hialeah, Florida, and lived in Boston throughout her twenties. She’s worked as a hairstylist and landscape designer. She has recently finished a humorous fiction manuscript. Caitlin MacEwan is the pseudonym of a writer with CFIDS. Under her real name, she has published articles, essays, poetry, drawings and satire internationally, primarily in NeoPagan and Feminist journals. She is a Priestess in an EcoFeminist Celtic Reconstructionist Pagan tradition and a founding member of a number of spiritual circles and organizations. She is a proud veteran of ACT-UP and other radical direct-action groups. Stacey Montgomery lives by her wits in the Jamaica Plain end of Boston. She spends her time writing, designing interactivity, and being Femme Mommie to the Lesbian Avengers of Boston. Mary Munson is a former educator, newspaper reporter, and health food store owner. She lives in the Midwest. Joan Nestle is the author of A Fragile Union and A Restricted Country, and editor of The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader and Sister and Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Together. She is also the co-editor of The Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction and the Women on Women Anthologies of American Lesbian Short Fiction. She has won many awards, including the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Lesbian and Gay Literature, American Library Association Gay/Lesbian Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. Gary Null, PhD is an award-winning journalist and author of dozens of books including Gary Null's Ultimate Anti-Aging Program, Healing Your Body Naturally, Change Your Life Now, and The Healthy Body Book. A prominent health advocate and broadcast journalist, he has also been a guest on talk shows like Oprah, Phil Donahue, and David Letterman. He is the host of the nationally syndicated The Gary Null Health and Nutrition Program. James Rotholz, PhD has - along with his wife - worked with relief and development programs in Ethiopia, Somalia and Nepal. Before contracting CFIDS, Dr. Rotholz was Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. His chapter in Stricken is revised from an unpublished book on Christianity, Culture, and CFIDS. Ellen Samuels’ poetry and essays have recently appeared in Kalliope, The American Voice, Journal of the American Medical Association, and the anthology Lesbians, Levis, & Lipstick. She also co-edited Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents (St. Martin’s Press). Floyd Skloot is the author of three novels and two collections of poetry. His book of essays about the illness experience, The Night Side (Story Line Press, 1996) was named one of the best books of the season by New Age Journal. Skloot's writing about illness has been reprinted in The Best American Essays of 1993 and The Art of the Essay 1999 as well as in such journals as The American Scholar, Commonweal, Boulevard, Antioch Review, Southwest Review, Missouri Review and many others. June Stein is a long-time activist. Chris Szabo formerly wrote for Armoured Fighting Vehicle News and other military-related magazines, including a main feature in Air Enthusiast, and a column in the specialist Balkan magazine, Delusions of Grandeur. Dorothy Wall is co-author of Finding Your Writer’s Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction (St. Martin’s Press, 1994). She has taught poetry and fiction writing at San Francisco State University, Napa Valley College and U.C. Berkeley, Extension, and is a writing consultant in Berkeley. Willy Wilkinson has written for a number of publications, including Curve, Sojourner, and the San Francisco Bay Times. Her piece "Remember the Place Where Your Soul Lives: Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome" in The Lesbian Health Book (Seal Press, 1997) highlighted the issue of CFIDS in the lesbian community. Other anthologies her work have appeared in include The Gender Politics of HIV/AIDS in Women: Perspectives on the Pandemic in the United States (New York University Press, 1997) and The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writing by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bisexual Women (Sister Vision Press, 1994).