Organizational Structure
'Neon Desert Series 2," Adela C. Licona
TRIVIA is managed by three co-editors, one of whom also publishes (with a little help from her friends) each issue. However, the "running" of TRIVIA is a collective affair, and both the Editorial Collective and the Editorial Advisory Board are involved. The Collective is a more hands-on body, with members guest-editing issues, reading and voting on submissions, and assisting with publication. The Editorial Advisory Board is largely that: an advisory body that helps us guide TRIVIA according to our original mission and our always evolving literary, feminist, and social justice goals. EAB members also review submissions in their areas of expertise.
Monica J. Casper, Publisher and Co-Editor
Monica J. Casper, a sociologist, is Head of the Gender and Women's Studies Department at the University of Arizona. Her scholarly expertise includes feminist studies, health and medicine, trauma studies, disability studies, body/embodiment studies, reproductive health and justice, and qualitative methods. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Making of the Unborn Patient: A Social Anatomy of Fetal Surgery, which won the C. Wright Mills Award, and Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility (with Lisa Jean Moore).
She also writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and her work has been published in The Linnet's Wings, Spilling Ink Review, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Slow Trains, and TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, among other outlets. In addition to publishing and co-editing TRIVIA, she is a member of the Editorial Management Collective of The Feminist Wire and co-founder and co-editor of the NYU Press "Biopolitics" book series. She is deeply committed to the practice of feminist publishing, including changing the terms by which "online publishing" gets to count as scholarship, knowledge, and truth.
Monica lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her partner, their daughters, two canines, a Russian dwarf hamster, and a sluggish Betta fish. She writes, communicates, and publishes on her MacBook Pro, sitting in an overstuffed red chair with a splendid view of the Catalina Mountains. And she is rarely found without a cup of sweetened black tea or a piece of dark chocolate at hand. To learn more about Monica, visit her website.
She also writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and her work has been published in The Linnet's Wings, Spilling Ink Review, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Slow Trains, and TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, among other outlets. In addition to publishing and co-editing TRIVIA, she is a member of the Editorial Management Collective of The Feminist Wire and co-founder and co-editor of the NYU Press "Biopolitics" book series. She is deeply committed to the practice of feminist publishing, including changing the terms by which "online publishing" gets to count as scholarship, knowledge, and truth.
Monica lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her partner, their daughters, two canines, a Russian dwarf hamster, and a sluggish Betta fish. She writes, communicates, and publishes on her MacBook Pro, sitting in an overstuffed red chair with a splendid view of the Catalina Mountains. And she is rarely found without a cup of sweetened black tea or a piece of dark chocolate at hand. To learn more about Monica, visit her website.
Julie Amparano, Co-Editor
Julie Amparano teaches professional and creative writing courses at Arizona State University’s School of Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies. She is also the director of the Writing Certificate Program. She received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch University in Los Angeles in 2006.
Her present writing projects include a collection of short stories; a play about the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan; and a series of nonfiction articles. Her current work explores the issues of biculturalism and assimilation. Her most recent play, "A Mother's Will," was nominated for an ariZoni for best original script and overall production. The play also was a winner at the Arizona Women's Theater Co.'s Pandora Festival. She is editor of the online literary magazine Canyon Voices, which is produced each semester by ASU West students.
Julie lives in Phoenix with her husband, two daughters, two nieces, and a dog. She has never met a salsa that is too hot for her taste buds.
Her present writing projects include a collection of short stories; a play about the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan; and a series of nonfiction articles. Her current work explores the issues of biculturalism and assimilation. Her most recent play, "A Mother's Will," was nominated for an ariZoni for best original script and overall production. The play also was a winner at the Arizona Women's Theater Co.'s Pandora Festival. She is editor of the online literary magazine Canyon Voices, which is produced each semester by ASU West students.
Julie lives in Phoenix with her husband, two daughters, two nieces, and a dog. She has never met a salsa that is too hot for her taste buds.
Linda Van Leuven, Co-Editor
Linda Van Leuven, Ph.D. (“LVL”) is a sociologist, writer, and teacher.
A recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at UCLA, her educational approach has been branded by students as “the LVL Experience.” Now in private practice, she does Educational Consulting, Workshops and Lectures – teaching Sociological Mindfulness as a methodology for greater awareness; and teaching classes on Gender, Sexuality, and Self from a sense of integration and wholeness – from a sense of Heart. She considers this basic education, and the foundation of a new feminism.
She has written articles about personalized service work, workplace sexualization, negotiating relational boundaries, and the suburban metropolis. Her work has appeared in scholarly collections and urban style magazines, and includes her B & W photography. She likes to combine unusual materials -- genres, artifacts, and ideas -- to reframe the boundaries of conception. She takes this same approach in editing. LVL is currently expanding, “A Feminist Editorial on Death,” her most recent publication in TRIVIA (Issue 13) as an editorial on Feminism & Life.
Some days, she also works in a Mall, selling high-end designer eyewear and new perspectives. She loves rocks and dirt and plants; old rusty bits – things and ideas on their last leg – and crafting something new. She lives in Long Beach, California, and shares the path with her Border Collie/Retriever mix, Maizie. To contact her, please visit www.lindavanleuven.com
A recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award at UCLA, her educational approach has been branded by students as “the LVL Experience.” Now in private practice, she does Educational Consulting, Workshops and Lectures – teaching Sociological Mindfulness as a methodology for greater awareness; and teaching classes on Gender, Sexuality, and Self from a sense of integration and wholeness – from a sense of Heart. She considers this basic education, and the foundation of a new feminism.
She has written articles about personalized service work, workplace sexualization, negotiating relational boundaries, and the suburban metropolis. Her work has appeared in scholarly collections and urban style magazines, and includes her B & W photography. She likes to combine unusual materials -- genres, artifacts, and ideas -- to reframe the boundaries of conception. She takes this same approach in editing. LVL is currently expanding, “A Feminist Editorial on Death,” her most recent publication in TRIVIA (Issue 13) as an editorial on Feminism & Life.
Some days, she also works in a Mall, selling high-end designer eyewear and new perspectives. She loves rocks and dirt and plants; old rusty bits – things and ideas on their last leg – and crafting something new. She lives in Long Beach, California, and shares the path with her Border Collie/Retriever mix, Maizie. To contact her, please visit www.lindavanleuven.com
Editorial Collective
Julia Balén
Julia Balén is on the English faculty at CSU Channel Islands.
She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies from the University of Arizona with a focus on embodiment and power relations and has published numerous articles on topics ranging from feminist humor to activism and pedagogy. She is currently finishing a book, Roberta's Rules , on feminist decision-making practices and has two new projects in different stages of development: a collection of essays on the central project of Monique Wittig's work, Annulling Gender, and a study of the LGBT choral movement. Julia's areas of specialization include twentieth-century world literature, feminist studies, activism and social change, sexuality, and gender studies. Before and during the process of earning her degrees she worked as a carpenter, building everything from furniture and cabinets to houses and apartment complexes, and teaching carpentry skills to women and underprivileged teens. But the job she loved best--besides teaching--was delivering singing telegrams. Julia's writing has appeared in TRIVIA, most recently in Issue #13. Breanne Fahs
Breanne Fahs is an associate professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, where she specializes in studying women's sexuality, critical embodiment studies, radical feminism, and political activism. She has a B.A. in women's studies/gender studies and psychology from Occidental College and a Ph.D. in women's studies and clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. In addition to publishing widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals, her book Performing Sex was recently published by SUNY Press (2011). Currently she has two books in press: Valerie Solanas (forthcoming from Feminist Press), a biography about the controversial and politically significant life of author/would-be assassin Valerie Solanas, and The Moral Panics of Sexuality (forthcoming from Palgrave), an edited collection that examines cultural anxieties of "scary sex." She is Director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and also works as a private practice clinical psychologist specializing in sexuality, couples work, and trauma recovery. Click here for more information.
Patricia Friedrich
Patricia Friedrich is Associate Professor at Arizona State University, having received her PhD from Purdue University. She is the author of non-fiction and fiction, with two books by Continuum - Language, Negotiation and Peace: the use of English in conflict resolution and Teaching Academic Writing (ed.) and a new edited book (Nonkilling Linguistics: toward practical applications) by the Center for Global Nonkilling. She has also published some 25 articles and book chapters in periodicals such as Harvard Business Review and World Englishes, and edited an area of The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (Wiley-Blackwell).
Patricia's fiction has appeared in Grey Sparrow, Eclectic Flash, Blue Guitar, and The Linnet’s Wings and is forthcoming in the anthologies Fiction in the Attic and Birkensnake 6. Her novel manuscript, Artful Women, won first prize at a recent Romance Writers of America regional competition (as a mainstream fiction entry). Find out more at patricia-friedrich.com. Sharon J. Kirsch
Sharon J. Kirsch is an Assistant Professor of English and Rhetorical Studies at Arizona State University, where she teaches courses in rhetorical, literary and critical theory, American literature, and women’s writing. Her current books projects include Gertrude Stein and the Canons of Rhetoric, which reinterprets an iconic literary figure as a major twentieth-century rhetorician, and a co-edited collection of essays,Primary Stein, which draws on recent cultural, historical, and biographical work and returns Stein studies to Stein’s primary works. Recent publications include “Gertrude Stein Delivers” in Rhetoric Review, “Two Exhibits, One Film, and the Pleasures of Gertrude Stein” in The Feminist Wire, “It Has Become Our Will: Onward with Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)” in Trivia: Voices of Feminism and “PR Guns for Hire: The Specter of Edward Bernays in Gadhafi’s Libya” in Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society.
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Adela C. Licona
Adela C. Licona is an associate professor in Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona. She is affiliated faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, the Institute for LGBT Studies, Family Studies and Human Development, and Mexican American Studies. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include borderlands rhetorics, cultural and gender studies, social justice coalitions, movements, and media, as well as visual culture, community literacies, action research, and public scholarship. She is co-editor of Feminist Pedagogy: Looking Back to Move Forward (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009). Her book, Zines In Third Space: Radical Cooperation and Borderlands Rhetoric, was published from SUNY Press in October 2012.
Adela is Co-Director of the Crossroads Collaborative, a research-initiative funded by the Ford Foundation, to bring stories and numbers together through action-oriented research with academics, youth serving organizations, and youth from the community to address youth sexuality, health, and rights (broadly conceived), to develop knowledge, increase understanding, amplify youth voice, and share what is learned with the broader community. She is co-founder of Feminist Action Research in Rhetoric, FARR, a group of feminist scholars engaged in public scholarship and community dialogue. She serves on the board for Women’s Studies in Communication (WSIC), Kore Press, Spoken Futures / Tucson Youth Poetry Slam, and Orion Magazine. Jo Novelli
Jo Novelli was born in a steel town in Pennsylvania but comes from many places. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her wife. Jo is currently preoccupied with how quickly things change, matters of the heart, and the relatively petty need to update her website: jonovelli.com. Her next creative project is to curate a show (February 2014) on the many problematics of "drones."
Chloe Silva
Chloe Silva is a student in the Master's of Social Justice and Human Rights program at Arizona State University (ASU), where she studies Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty. Currently, she leads the project Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery, which is a partnership between ASU and Tonatierra Community Development Institute, an Indigenous Peoples organization located in Central Phoenix. This project brings together Indigenous scholars, activists, artists, and community leaders from throughout the Americas to create strategies for transcending colonialism and fostering self-determination. Her research interests also include critical race and gender theory, Latin@ feminisms, and critiques of the various industrial complexes.
Michelle Téllez
Michelle Téllez teaches in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies and the Masters in Social Justice and Human Rights program at the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University. Her writing and research projects seek to uncover the stories of transnational community formation along the U.S./Mexico border, cross-border labor organizing, migration, and identity. She also volunteers and sits on the board for the Arizona Interfaith Alliance for Worker Justice based in downtown Phoenix, AZ, is a former board member for the National Association of Chicana/o Studies, a founding member of Arizona Scholars in Support of Ethnic Studies in Schools, and is on the editorial review board for Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. For more information, click here.
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Editorial Advisory Board
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of a fifteen-year-old unwed mother who worked as a waitress. Now living in Northern California with her partner Alix and her teenage son, Wolf Michael, she describes herself as a feminist, a working class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet, and a happily born-again Californian.
The first member of her family to graduate from high school, Allison attended Florida Presbyterian college on a National Merit Scholarship and studied anthropology at the New School for Social Research. An award winning editor for Quest, Conditions, and Outlook—early feminist and Lesbian & Gay journals, Allison's chapbook of poetry, The Women Who Hate Me, was published with Long Haul Press in 1983. Her short story collection, Trash (1988) was published by Firebrand Books. Trash won two Lambda Literary Awards and the American Library Association Prize for Lesbian and Gay Writing. Allison received mainstream recognition with her novel Bastard Out of Carolina, (1992) a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. The novel won the Ferro Grumley prize, an ALA Award for Lesbian and Gay Writing, became a best seller, and an award-winning movie. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Cavedweller (1998) became a national bestseller, NY Times Notable book of the year, finalist for the Lillian Smith prize, and an ALA prize winner. Adapted for the stage by Kate Moira Ryan, the play was directed by Michael Greif, and featured music by Hedwig composer, Stephen Trask. In 2003, Lisa Cholendenko directed a movie version featuring Krya Sedwick. Stella Pope Duarte
Inspired to write by a prophetic dream of her father in 1995, Stella Pope Duarte believes that writing, like love, begins within, or it doesn’t start at all. Hailed by critics as a “major, new literary voice in America,” Duarte is described by Jacquelyn Mitchard as a “magical weaver with a sure hand and a pure heart,” and praised by Ursula K. Leguin as an author who “will enlarge humanity.” Her works include: Fragile Night, (Bilingual Review Press, 1997), Let Their Spirits Dance, (HarperCollins, 2002), If I Die in Juárez, (University of Arizona Press, 2008), Women Who Live in Coffee Shops and Other Stories, (Arte Publico Press, 2010), and her most current work, (2012) Writing Through Revelations, Visions and Dreams: The memoir of a writer’s soul.
Duarte has won honors and awards nationwide, including a 2009 American Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize nomination, Southwest Book of the Year Award, Women in American History Award, and a nomination to Oprah’s Book Sense list. Born and raised in the Sonorita Barrio in South Phoenix, she is second to the last in a family of eight children. As a child, she was voted the shyest girl in school, and since then she says she has learned to “speak her mind,” and encourages others to do the same. In spite of national awards and recognition, she has never forgotten her humble beginnings, and believes that her faith and love of family have formed the foundation for her success. Harriet Ellenberger
Harriet Ann Ellenberger was a founding member of the Charlotte (North Carolina) Women's Center (1971), co-founding editor of the journal Sinister Wisdom (1976-81), a founding partner in the bilingual bookstore L'Essentielle (Montreal, 1987), editor of a small web publication She Is Still Burning (2000-2003), and co-editor (2004-2008) of Trivia: Voices of Feminism. She lives in rural New Brunswick, Canada. Her most recent writing is slowly materializing on her website at www.harriete.org.
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Mariko Nagai
Having grown up in Europe and America, Mariko Nagai studied English with a concentration in poetry at New York University where she was the Erich Maria Remarque Fellow. She has received the Pushcart Prizes in both poetry and fiction (nominated five times in total) and has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for the Arts, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Yaddo, to name a few. She is the author of Histories of Bodies: Poems (Red Hen Press, 2007), Georgic: Stories in 2009 (BkMk Press/University of Missouri Kansas City, 2010), Instructions for the Living (WordPalace Press, 2012), and two novels forthcoming in 2014 and 2015.
Betsy Warland
Creative nonfiction writer, poet, essayist, teacher, manuscript consultant, and editor Betsy Warland was born in the United States in 1946. Betsy immigrated to Canada in 1973, becoming a citizen in 1980. Warland has published eleven books of creative nonfiction and poetry.
Dedicated to emerging writers, Betsy is the former director of The Writer’s Studio, part of Simon Fraser University’s Writing and Communications Program (2000 -2011). She currently directs and is a mentor in her own five-month manuscript development program, Vancouver Manuscript Intensive. Betsy is on faculty in both programs. An active member of The Writers’ Union of Canada, Betsy served on the National Council (2010-2012) and is the co-founder, along with Myrna Kostash, of the Creative Nonfiction Collective. Her archives are in the National Library of Canada. Perhaps most known for her language-focused writing and ways of working with silence, Betsy finds as much meaning in scoring blank space on the page as she does in inscribing written language. The unsayable, the secreted, the unknowable: these are her obsessions--how we encounter them in lover relationships, family, a homophobic society, a mono-truth society, and the inner work of spiritual practice. Currently, Betsy is working on a creative non-fiction manuscript “Oscar of Between.” Excerpts from her manuscript, alongside Guest Writers’ and Artists’ work and comments from readers can be found at Oscar on her website. Lise Weil
Lise Weil was founder and editor of the print journal Trivia: A Journal of Ideas (1982-1991) and editor of its online relaunch Trivia: Voices of Feminism from 2005-2011. She lives in Montreal and teaches in Goddard College’s low-residency IMA program. Her collection of Mary Meigs’ writings on aging, Beyond Recall, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in biography. Her translation of Verena Stefan’s “Doe a Deer” was included in Dalkey Archive’s Best European Fiction of 2011. She is currently completing a memoir, In Search of Pure Lust.
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