Dykewomon, Elana: - Elana Dykewomon has published seven award-winning books foregrounding lesbian heroism, including the classics Riverfinger Women (1974), Beyond the Pale (1997), and Risk (2009). A former editor of the international lesbian feminist journal Sinister Wisdom, she is the recipient of the Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle's Ferro-Grumley Award. In 2009 she received the Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize, awarded by the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. Dykewomon and her partner live in Oakland, California.