Cedar Heartwood

Cedar Heartwood was born in 1949, in north Louisiana, of parents who were both born in New Orleans. She has lived on women’s land most of the time since 1988, building female community and creating culture outside patriarchy. Retired from the many jobs that were only a means to survival, she finally has time to push for progressive-leaning change in her rural county, where “don’t ask, don’t tell” is still operative.

Cedar Heartwood’s poetry and prose have been published in the periodicals Maize: A Lesbian Country Magazine, WomanSpirit, We’Moon, and more recently in Sinister Wisdom. She contributed to Crone Chronicles 20-20, a book of writings by crones. Her poetry is included in the collection Writing Who We Are, Poems by Kentucky Feminists.

Cedar Heartwood is a coeditor and/or a contributor to five of the six special issues focusing on the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project for Sinister Wisdom, volumes 93, 98, 109, 116, and 124.