Christian McEwen

Christian McEwen is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher. The film "Tomboys!" is based on her anthology "Jo’s Girls" Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life" (Beacon Press 1997). She is the editor of "The Alphabet of the Trees: A Guide to Nature Writing" (Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 2000), "Naming the Waves: Contemporary Lesbian Poetry" (Crossing Press, 1988), and, with Sue O’Sullivan, "Out the Other Side: Contemporary Lesbian Writing" (Crossing Press, 1989). Her stories, poems, and articles have appeared in Granta, The American Voice, Teachers & Writers Magazine, and numerous anthologies such as "Out of the Class Closet: Lesbians Speak;" and "My Mother’s Daughter: Stories by Women." She has received a Fulbright Scholarship, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Fund for Poetry Award, as well as fellowships at the Yaddo, Millay, and MacDowell Colonies, Cottages at Hedgebrook, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She was educated at Kings College, Cambridge (England), and the University of California, Berkeley. (03/05)

Tomboys!
A film by Julie Akeret and Christian McEwen, 2004, 28 min., Color
Are tomboys tamed once they grow up? This lively and inspiring documentary explodes that archaic myth with the stories of proud tomboys of all ages: A...