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Alta started Shameless Hussy Press in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/alta|title=Alta and the History of Shameless Hussy Press, 1969-1989|publisher=[[University of California, Santa Cruz]]|accessdate=9 February 2012}}</ref> The first women-owned feminist press in California, it published over 40 books in the twenty years Alta operated it, from 1969 to 1989. Most authors they accepted were women, and they published a variety of genres, including collections of poetry and a few children’s books. Shameless Hussy Press published the first edition of ''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow is Enuf'' by [[Ntozake Shange]],<ref>[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/womstu/fempress/shamelesshussy.html California Feminist Presses Collection: Shameless Hussy Press]</ref> and [[Mary Mackey]]'s first novel, ''Immersion'' (1972). The press closed in 1989; its archive is held at [[University of California Santa Cruz]].<ref> |
Alta started Shameless Hussy Press in 1969.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.ucsc.edu/reg-hist/alta|title=Alta and the History of Shameless Hussy Press, 1969-1989|publisher=[[University of California, Santa Cruz]]|accessdate=9 February 2012}}</ref> The first women-owned feminist press in California, it published over 40 books in the twenty years Alta operated it, from 1969 to 1989. Most authors they accepted were women, and they published a variety of genres, including collections of poetry and a few children’s books. Shameless Hussy Press published the first edition of ''For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow is Enuf'' by [[Ntozake Shange]],<ref>[http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/womstu/fempress/shamelesshussy.html California Feminist Presses Collection: Shameless Hussy Press]</ref> and [[Mary Mackey]]'s first novel, ''Immersion'' (1972). The press closed in 1989; its archive is held at [[University of California Santa Cruz]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf396nb2dv|title=Guide to the Shameless Hussy Press records, 1968-1989|year=2009|publisher=[[University of California, Santa Cruz]]|accessdate=9 February 2012}}</ref> Her first volume of feminist poetry, ''Freedom's in Sight'', was published in 1969,<ref>{{cite book|last=Heinemann|first=Sue|title=Timelines of American women's history|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=5kjkZjvnI-sC&pg=PA326|accessdate=9 February 2012|date=1996-03-01|publisher=Penguin|isbn=9780399519864|page=326}}</ref> and some of her poems were anthologized in such collections as ''From Feminism to Liberation'' (Philip G. Altbach and Edith S. Hoshino, eds, 1971).<ref>{{cite book|last=Yates|first=Gayle Graham|title=What Women Want: The Ideas of the Movement|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=JkoUaOISQHwC&pg=PA115|accessdate=9 February 2012|date=1975-12-12|publisher=Harvard UP|isbn=9780674950795|pages=ix, 115–16}}</ref> |
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Since then Alta operates an art gallery in [[Berkeley, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_13026815?source=pkg|title=Berkeley gallery owner tries to grasp the art of staying solvent|first=5 April 2011|coauthors=Salah|date=Jaylan|publisher=Synchronized Chaos|accessdate=9 February 2012}}</ref> |
Since then Alta operates an art gallery in [[Berkeley, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_13026815?source=pkg|title=Berkeley gallery owner tries to grasp the art of staying solvent|first=5 April 2011|coauthors=Salah|date=Jaylan|publisher=Synchronized Chaos|accessdate=9 February 2012}}</ref> |
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*{{cite web|url=http://digitalcollections.ucsc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p265101coll13/id/3339|title=Alta and the History of Shameless Hussy Press, 1969-1989|last=Reti|first=Irene|coauthors=Randall Jarrell|year=2001|publisher=[[University of California, Santa Cruz]]|accessdate=9 February 2012}} [Two interviews with Alta and history of press.] |
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Revision as of 15:39, 9 February 2012
Alta Gerrey (born 1942, Reno, Nevada[1]) is an American poet, prose writer, and publisher,[2] best known as the founder of the feminist press Shameless Hussy Press and editor of the Shameless Hussy Review.[3]
Biography
Alta started Shameless Hussy Press in 1969.[4] The first women-owned feminist press in California, it published over 40 books in the twenty years Alta operated it, from 1969 to 1989. Most authors they accepted were women, and they published a variety of genres, including collections of poetry and a few children’s books. Shameless Hussy Press published the first edition of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange,[5] and Mary Mackey's first novel, Immersion (1972). The press closed in 1989; its archive is held at University of California Santa Cruz.[6] Her first volume of feminist poetry, Freedom's in Sight, was published in 1969,[7] and some of her poems were anthologized in such collections as From Feminism to Liberation (Philip G. Altbach and Edith S. Hoshino, eds, 1971).[8]
Since then Alta operates an art gallery in Berkeley, California.[9]
Awards
- 1981 American Book Award
References
- ^ Blain, Virginia; Clements, Patricia; Grundy, Isobel (1990). The feminist companion to literature in English: women writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Batsford. ISBN 9780713458480. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ The Oxford companion to women's writing in the United States. Oxford University Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-19-506608-1.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|editors=ignored (|editor=suggested) (help) - ^ Moore, Honor (March/April 2009). "After 'Ariel': Celebrating the poetry of the women's movement". Boston Review. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ "Alta and the History of Shameless Hussy Press, 1969-1989". University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ California Feminist Presses Collection: Shameless Hussy Press
- ^ "Guide to the Shameless Hussy Press records, 1968-1989". University of California, Santa Cruz. 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ Heinemann, Sue (1996-03-01). Timelines of American women's history. Penguin. p. 326. ISBN 9780399519864. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ Yates, Gayle Graham (1975-12-12). What Women Want: The Ideas of the Movement. Harvard UP. pp. ix, 115–16. ISBN 9780674950795. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ "Berkeley gallery owner tries to grasp the art of staying solvent". Synchronized Chaos. Jaylan. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
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External links
- Reti, Irene (2001). "Alta and the History of Shameless Hussy Press, 1969-1989". University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) [Two interviews with Alta and history of press.]