Liz Henry is a poet, translator, and editor as well as a computer geek and web developer. She has been publishing zines and small books since 1986, some under Riot Grrrl imprints and some under the imprints of Tollbooth Press and Burn This Press. For Aqueduct Press, she edited WisCon Chronicles...
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Liz Henry is a poet, translator, and editor as well as a computer geek and web developer. She has been publishing zines and small books since 1986, some under Riot Grrrl imprints and some under the imprints of Tollbooth Press and Burn This Press. For Aqueduct Press, she edited WisCon Chronicles Volume 3: Carnival of Feminist SF. With Robert and Sanja Pesich, she edited an anthology of work by 12 San Francisco Bay Area poets, Cuts from the Barbershop. Liz has translated work by many Spanish American poets, including Carmen Berenguer, Nestor Perlongher, María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira, and Juana de Ibarbourou, and has written Toward an Anthology of Spanish-American Women Poets, 1880-1930, with her translations from Spanish to English of 42 poems by 25 women from 11 countries in the Americas. With Yehudit Oriah, she co-translated a book of poetry from Hebrew, Mandala: Tales of the Golden Doll. Her translations from Spanish to English of a poem cycle about the photographs of Francesca Woodman, by Zulema Moret, are in print in Barcelona and Buenos Aires as Un ángel al borde del volcán ardiendo. She has also published poems and translations in journals like Poesy, Stone Telling, Specs, Verdad, Out of Our, Lodestar Quarterly, Two Lines, Xantippe, Parthenon West, O Sweet Flowery Roses, Cipactli, Convergence, eXchanges, Literary Mama, Strange Horizons, and Fantastic Metropolis. She has blogged and helped maintain feministsf.net with Laura Quilter and Janice Dawley for many years, and contributes to geekfeminism.org. Her main blog is at http://bookmaniac.org. She regularly speaks and moderates panels at science fiction cons and technical conferences. She lives on a houseboat in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner and their children, and is part of Noisebridge, an anarchist hackerspace collective in San Francisco.
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