Joanna Russ

Joanna Russ (born 22 February 1937), American writer, pioneer of feminist science fiction, essayist.

Biography

Grew up in the Bronx. Born to Bertha Zinner and Evarett I. Russ. BA with High Honors in English from Cornell University (1957); MFA from Yale University School of Drama (1960). Came out in 1969. Taught at Cornell, SUNY Binghamton, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Washington (Seattle).

First published in 1959.

Bibliography

Novels

• Picnic on Paradise (1968)
• And Chaos Died (1970)
• The Female Man (1975)
• We Who Are About To... (1977)
• Kittatinny: A Tale of Magic (1978)
• The Two of Them (1978)
• On Strike Against God (1980) (non-SF)

Collections

• The Adventures of Alyx (1976; 1986)
• The Zanzibar Cat (1983)
• Extra(Ordinary) People (1985)
• The Hidden Side of the Moon (1987)

Nonfiction

• "The Image of Women in Science Fiction" (1971)
• How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983)
• Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans & Perverts: Feminist Essays (1985)
• To Write Like a Woman: Essays in Feminism and Science Fiction (1995)
• What Are We Fighting For? Sex, Race, Class, and the Future of Feminism (1998)
• The Country You Have Never Seen (forthcoming)
• "What Can a Heroine Do?"
• "Images of Women"
• "Amor Vincit"

Notable short stories

• "The Zanzibar Cat" (1971)
• "When It Changed" (written 1969; published 1972)
• "Souls" (1982)

Interviews

• Interviewed by Samuel R. Delany at WisCon 30 (2006)
• Interview in Larry McCaffery, ed., Across the Wounded Galaxies: Interviews with Contemporary American Science Fiction Writers. (1990).

References

• Jane L. Donawerth entry in glbtq