Author, Scholar and Activist
Celeste Newbrough resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and illustrations appear in a variety of journals, anthologies, and books. She is the author of several books and widely read essays. She is retired from the University of California, where she worked in a variety of scholarly and research venues including Bancroft Library and the Insitute for Personality & Social Research. In Berkeley, she taught English Literature and Creative Writing and directed Academic Indexing Service. She also taught Women's Studies at City College of San Francisco, Harvey Milk Institute, and the West Coast School of Contemporary Thought. She has a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature and a Ph.D. in Women's Studies. Born in New Orleans, she is the daughter of Southern representational painter, Norita Massicott-Newbrough (1910-1971). On her father's side, she is a descendant of the late 19th century American mystic, John Ballou Newbrough.
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- Writing Credits
- Author of The ZanScripts and Pagan Psalms.
- On-line access to "Bah, Bah, Black Sheep: Cloning, Reproductive Rights and the Gender Revolution", essay on reproductive rights and technologies widely used in women's studies programs.
- Sex Mates Gender, a work on evolutionary reproductive theory; serialized online by the Journal of Evolutionary Feminism.
- Contributing author, Routledge Encyclopedia of Women (2000).
- Co-editor of DISTAFF, a Southern women's journal.
- Radio producer, KPFA and KALX in Berkeley
- Fine arts editor,OneCraft Publishing House
- As Principal Indexer of Academic Indexing Service, compose scholarly indexes for academic and intstitutional publishers.
- A lifelong activist in civil rights, feminist, ecofeminist, lebsian and gay organizations.
- Founder and WebmasterInternational Archives of the Second Wave
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