Corky Culver

Kathleen “Corky” Culver is a widely-known poet, activist, videographer, historian, and regular performer at lesbian writers’ conferences. She has archived several films with the Lesbian Home Movie Project, and she has written about lesbian activism for the Southern Herstory issues of Sinister Wisdom. Corky has published two poetry collections, The Natural Law of Water (2007), and Finding the Well (2022).  

In the late 1960s, Corky Culver was instrumental in forming one of the first lesbian consciousness raising groups in the country. She earned her doctorate in English from the University of Florida, and she taught English at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida. There she was also the faculty coordinator of Tracings, the student arts literature journal .

Corky Culver lives with her wife in a log cabin on a lake in North Central Florida.

See also:

Corky’s 2012 interview, audio online at Duke

Published under Corky Culver

“Our Lands, Our Selves,” Sinister Wisdom 98 (Fall 2015): 13-16.

“The North Forty,” Sinister Wisdom 98 (Fall 2015): 19-24.

“Transforming Lesbian Cultural Politics in Gainesville, Florida,” Sinister Wisdom 109 (Summer 2018): 24-28.

Published under Kathleen “Corky” Culver

“A Croning on Women’s Land,” Sinister Wisdom 124 (Spring 2022): 73-75.

“Feminism Dances Over Walls of Tradition,” Sinister Wisdom 104 (Spring 2017): 156-59.

“Gainesville Women’s Renaissance Festival, 1974,” Sinister Wisdom 104 (Spring 2017): 176-77.

“Into the Grueling Duelings of Consensus Dances Sweet Meditation,” Sinister Wisdom 93 (Summer 2014): 23-26.

“The South,” Sinister Wisdom 93 (Summer 2014): 9-14.

“Sparks and Prairie Fires: A Memoir,” Sinister Wisdom 93 (Summer 2014): 17-22.