Lynn Crosbie is a Canadian poet and novelist. She teaches at the University of Toronto.
She received her Ph.D in English from the University of Toronto, writing her thesis on the work of the American poet Anne Sexton.
Crosbie has lectured on and written about visual art at the AGO, the Power Plant, and OCAD University (where she taught for six years.) She is an award-winning journalist and regular contributor to Fashion magazine and Hazlitt. She has had columns in the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Toronto Star,Flare and Eye magazine.
I read this in middle school and it was my entry into feminism as an explicit idea. I remember being both titillated and thought-provoked. I would like to read it again to recall what it was like to be me fifteen years ago.