JUDY GRAHN is a trailblazing lesbian-feminist poet, activist, and mythographer. The author of fourteen books of poetry and prose, she is credited with fueling the GLBT, feminist, and women’s spirituality movements internationally.
Grahn walked the first picket line of the White House for gay rights in 1965 and co-founded the Women’s Press Collective in the Bay Area in 1969. A founding member of the West Coast Lesbian Feminist Movement, she has received numerous honors throughout her career, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, an American Book Award, and a Founding Foremothers Spirituality Award. She received the Publishing Triangle Lifetime Achievement Award in Letters in 1997. Since then, Triangle Publishers has bestowed an annual Judy Grahn Nonfiction Award in her honor.
Earlier this year, I conducted a Zoom interview with Judy Grahn on the occasion of the republication of her 1984 classic The Highest Apple. This interview was originally aired on May 7, 2024, on the Vermont-based cable-access show All Things LGBTQ. The following is a short excerpt. The longer, more wide-ranging conversation is available under “Series” at orcamedia.net, on YouTube, and elsewhere.
