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An award-winning poet, novelist, political theorist, feminist activist, journalist, editor, and best-selling author, Robin Morgan has published 20 books, including the now-classic anthologies
Sisterhood Is Powerful
(Random House, 1970) and
Sisterhood Is Global
(Doubleday, l984; updated edition, The Feminist Press, 1996); with the recent
Sisterhood Is Forever
(Washington Square Press, 2003). A leader in contemporary US feminism, she has also played an influential role internationally in the women’s movement for more than 25 years.
An invited speaker at every major university in North America, Morgan 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 books include the novels
Dry Your Smile
(Doubleday, l987) and
The Mer-Child A Legend for Children and Other Adults
(Feminist Press, 1991); nonfiction
Going Too Far
(Random House, 1977),
The Word of a Woman
(Norton, 1992, 2nd ed. 1994), and
The Anatomy of Freedom
(Norton, 1994). Her work has been translated into 13 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Sanskrit. Recent books include the poetry anthologies
Upstairs in the Garden
(1994) and
A Hot January
(both Norton), as well as the memoir
Saturday's Child
(Norton, 2000), and her best-selling nonfiction piece
The Demon Lover - The Roots of Terrorism
(Norton, 1989—2nd ed. with a new introduction and afterword (Washington Square Press, 2001). Her novel on the Inquisition —
The Burning Time
— was published in 2006 (Melville House), and
Fighting Words A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right
in 2006 (Nation Books).
As founder and president of
The Sisterhood Is Global Institute
and co-founder and board member of
The Women’s Media Center
, she has co-founded and serves on the boards of many women’s organizations in the US and abroad. In 1990, as editor-in-chief of
Ms.
magazine
, she relaunched the magazine as an international, award-winning, ad-free bimonthly, resigning in late 1993 to become consulting global editor. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize for poetry, and numerous other honors, she lives in New York City.
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