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Elana Dykewomon, a gregarious, cerebral author, poet and activist who spent decades exploring her identity as both a lesbian and a Jew while working to foster communities of “chosen families”
In a five-decade career that began with the coming-of-age novel “Riverfinger Women,” she was outspoken in her fiction, her poetry and her life.
Lesbian author Elana Dykewomon died in her Oakland home August 7, just hours before a staged reading of her first play over Zoom. She was 72.
Bay Area writer and feminist activist Elana Dykewomon died Aug. 7 — the same day that her first play received its second staged reading.
Her famous works included Riverfinger Women and Beyond the Pale.