Julia Penelope
(June 19, 1941 - living) U.S.A.
Writer and linguist
Penelope was born at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. She completed her BA at the City University of New York in 1966 after having been kicked out of Florida State University and the University of Miami, because of her lesbianism.
She then went on to do her PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, conpleting it in 1971. She taught in universities for twenty years before settling down to a life of writing in Massachusetts. She lists as her hobbies cooking, gardening, weight-lifting, and rock hunting.
Source: excerpts from: Gabriele Griffin, Who's Who in Lesbian and Gay and Writing, Routledge, London, 2002
Her work include:
- The Original Coming Out Stories (1980-89)
- For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology (1988)
- Finding the Lesbians (1990)
- International Feminist Fiction (1992)
- Sexual Practice/Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism (1993)
- Lesbian Culture: An Anthology (1993)
- Out of the Class Closet: Lesbian Speak (1994)
- Crossword Puzzles for Women (1995)
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