THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT

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“I called my press Shameless Hussy, because my mother used that term for women she didn’t approve of. And no one approved of what I was doing.”

British-American poet, prose writer and publisher. Founder of Shameless Hussy Press, the first feminist press in the United States, 1969. Editor of the Shameless Hussy Review. Owner of alta Galleria

Interviewed by Mary Jean Collins, VFA Historian, June 2023