Conditions: Nine

by Dorothy Allison (Editor), Elly Bulkin (Editor), Cheryl Clarke (Editor)

A magazine of writing by women with an emphasis on writing by lesbians.

195 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Dorothy Earlene Allison was an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She was a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.