About
the Writers
(email addresses are written
out with spaces and "at" instead of "@"
to minimize automated spam)
SARAH
WARN
(email: editor at afterellen.com) Founder and Editor
Sarah grew in a small town in Washington State, reading everything
she could get her hands on and making up games with her sister
like the soon-to-be-patented "Pan Ball" (which requires
only a tennis ball, a skillet and the roof of your house). She
received a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Master's in Theological
Studies from Harvard University, and spent several years doing
online marketing and business development for large consumer
brands before founding AfterEllen.com in April 2002 and Erosion
Media, LLC.
KARMAN
KREGLOE
(email: karman at afterellen.com) Associate Editor Karman
Kregloe is a writer from Blacksburg, Virginia. She has written
and acted in several short films, including House
of Squirts. She lives in Los Angeles.
MALINDA
LO (email:
malindalo at afterellen.com) Features Editor
Malinda Lo is the features editor at AfterEllen.com, to which she has been contributing since 2003, when she wrote the site's first article on Ellen DeGeneres. Prior to joining AfterEllen.com as features editor in August 2006, she was the associate editor at Curve, and has been a columnist at Girlfriends and the Lesbian News. She earned her B.A. in Economics and Chinese Studies at Wellesley College, her M.A. in Regional Studies-East Asia at Harvard University, and her M.A. in Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University. She lives in San Francisco and is completing a novel that revisits the Cinderella fairy tale. Visit her online at www.malindalo.com.
KIM
FICERA (email:
kim at kimficera.com) Contributing Writer
Kim Ficera is an award-winning columnist, author, and humorist
living in northern California. Entertaining and thought-provoking,
she writes with an often-unforgiving tongue-in-cheek humor that
exposes the ridiculousness of the human condition. Her work
has appeared in national and regional magazines and newspapers,
and on public radio. As a result of the above exposure, Kim
is closely watched by members of the religious right, other
homophobic organizations, and people with very bad handwriting.
And that, she thinks, is a great reason to comb her hair every
morning.
SHAUNA SWARTZ (email: shauna.swartz at avantguild.com) Contributing Writer
Shauna Swartz spent her first 32 years in Los Angeles—minus a two-year stint in Atlanta resulting in an M.A. in anthropology, and a one-year turn in India resulting in a protozoal infection that, while highly unpleasant, wasn’t too high a price to pay for an otherwise wondrous experience. Something non-pathogenic then possessed her to move to Philadelphia, where her So Cal-bred appreciation for meteorological subtlety is now facing the Northeast’s more garish seasonal changes. She has copy-edited gay men’s porn and dabbled in the seedier world of corporate copywriting. She now writes freelance for eclectic outlets on sundry topics, but is consistent in her inability to keep her snarkiness in check. She dreams of starting a gourmet/knitting/motorcycle club and resuming competitive rowing.
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SCRIBE
GRRRL
(email: scribegrrrl at gmail.com) Contributing Writer
Scribe Grrrl is a law librarian at an Ivy League school. Yes,
really--who could make that up? She grew up in a tiny farm town
and attended Colorado College with Mary Cheney (but has no good
stories about that). Her hobbies include muttering about digital
copyright, singing "The Lonely Goatherd," and staring
out the window. She has not submitted a picture to accompany
this bio but resembles the "Mahna Mahna" Muppet.
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SHARON HADRIAN (email: N/A yet) Contributing Writer
Sharon Hadrian was born and raised in a tiny, homogenous town outside of Baltimore, Maryland. She is degreed in English, and therefore has proven on an academic level that she can write screenplays, poems, children's books, technical instructions, and other things people will never read. Sharon is currently working on a bisexuality-themed rock opera, and she is also the founder and editor of Antithesis Common, an online literary magazine with a diversity slant.
BAD MACHINE (email:
bad.machine at gmail.com) Contributing Writer
When she's not writing for AfterEllen, bad machine is a production manager in the broadcast television industry because it's one of the few jobs that fulfills her two career requirements: good pay and a ridiculously lax dress code. She holds a degree in communications, sarcasm in high regard and a grudge against whoever designed the track suit. bad machine lives in New Jersey with her girlfriend and her dog.
HEATHER AIMEE O'NEILL (email: Acrossthepage at hotmail.com) Contributing Writer
Heather Aimee O'Neill is a freelance writer and teaches literature and creative writing at CUNY Hunter College of New York. Her work has appeared in several literary journals, including Spinning Jenny, Bostonia and Many Mountains Moving. She is currently working on her first novel.
SUZANNE CORSON (email: kim at kimficera.com) Contributing Writer
Suzanne Corson is the Executive Editor at Books To Watch Out For, a LGBT and feminist book review e-newsletter. Previously she was Executive Editor at HAF Publishing (publisher of On Our Backs and Girlfriends magazines) and Editor of EastBayVoice.org. She also spent twelve years as the proprietrix of Boadecia's Books, a feminist/queer bookstore near Berkeley, California. Suzanne has a BA in Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies from Mills College. In addition to the aforementioned publications and websites, her writing has appeared in Feminist Bookstore News, Sojourner, on AfterEllen.com, and in the fiction anthology Uniform Sex: Erotic Stories of Women in Service.
DANIELLE
RIENDEAU (email:
danieller213 at yahoo.com) Contributing Writer
Danielle is a New England based writer currently working toward her M.F.A. in film production, with the career goal of making GOOD lesbian movies. She has degrees in Philosophy and Psychology, quite possibly ensuring that she will never have a normal job. Danielle is also an improvisational comedy performer, an avid distance runner, and a contributor to grrlgamer.com, but tries not to mix all of those activities at once, for fear of losing an eye… or worse.
ANGELA ROBINSON
(email: angela at pinkthunderonline.com) Contributing Writer
Angela Robinson, who directed Disney's Herbie: Fully Loaded and wrote and directed D.E.B.S., is currently working as a producer, director and writer on Season 4 of The L Word. She is also at work on New Line's upcoming film Jenbot and Disney's Witches.
LINDA
VILLAROSA (email:
linda at afterellen.com)
Contributing Writer
Linda Villarosa is a freelance writer and editor. She is a former
editor of the New York Times, and also wrote dozens
of articles for the paper. Linda was also the executive editor
of Essence Magazine, where she wrote or edited a number
of award-winning articles. In
1991, with her mother, Clara, Linda wrote Essence's
ground-breaking article, "Coming Out," which received
more mail than any other in the magazine's history. Due to the
overwhelming response, the two women followed up with an additional
story several months later. Linda is the author of Body
& Soul: The Black Women's Guide to Physical Health and Emotional
Well-Being and co-author of several other books. She just
completed her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn, New York,
with her two children and her partner, Jana.
