An award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist, journalist, editor, and best-selling author, Robin Morgan has published more than 20 books, including the now-classic anthologies Sisterhood Is Powerful, Sisterhood Is Global, and Sisterhood Is Forever. Her work include the novels Dry Your Smile and The Mer-Child: A Legend for Children and Other Adults; nonfiction Going Too Far, The Word of A Woman, and The Anatomy of Freedom, and Upstairs in the Garden: Selected and New Poems. Recent books include A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999; Saturday’s Child: A Memoir; and The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism, and a new novel on the Inquisition—The Burning Time. Fighting Words: A Tool Kit for Combating the Religious Right is newly out, September 2006 (Nation Books). (www.RobinMorgan.us).

A founder/leader of contemporary US feminism, she has also been a leader in the international women’s movement for 30 years. An invited speaker at every major university in North America, she has traveled--as organizer, lecturer, journalist--across Europe, to Australia, Brazil, the Caribbean, Central America, China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pacific Island nations, the Philippines, and South Africa; she has twice (1986 and 1989) spent months in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza, reporting on the conditions of women. Her work has been translated into 13 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Sanskrit. She lives in New York City, and recently co-founded The Women’s Media Center (www.womensmediacenter.com).

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