Lisa E. Davis has lived in Greenwich Village for many years and loves to write about it. "Under The Mink" is her first novel. For the world of "Under the Mink" see her essay "The Butch as Drag Artiste: Greenwich Village in the Roaring Forties" in Joan Nestle's "The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader." Also visit the book website: http://www.underthemink.com
With a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Davis taught in the State and City University systems of New York, and frequently publish translations from Spanish-most recently in the Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction.
Lisa E. Davis' fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, Sister & Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives Lisa E. Davis has lived in Greenwich Village for many years and loves to write about it. "Under The Mink" is her first novel. For the world of "Under the Mink" see her essay "The Butch as Drag Artiste: Greenwich Village in the Roaring Forties" in Joan Nestle's "The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader." Also visit the book website: http://www.underthemink.com
With a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Davis taught in the State and City University systems of New York, and frequently publish translations from Spanish-most recently in the Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction.
Lisa E. Davis' fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, Sister & Brother: Lesbians and Gay Men Write About Their Lives together, Queer View Mirror 2, New York Sex, Early Embraces II, Set in Stone, A Woman's Touch, Best Lesbian Love Stories, 2004, and Ultimate Lesbian Erotica, 2005.
Other high points in her life include meeting Fidel Castro and almost drowning in the Colorado River. ...more