Deena Metzger was born on 1936 and is an American writer, healer, and teacher whose work spans multiple genres including the novel, poetry, non-fiction, and plays.
10 Facts About Deena Metzger
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Deena Metzger founded the writing program at Woman's Building in Los Angeles and was a contributing editor to Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture that ran from 1977 to 1980 in Woman's Building.
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Deena Metzger first introduced and convened Dare, monthly gatherings for community and individual healing in 1999 and then ReVisioning Medicine in 2004.
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Deena Metzger was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1936 to Arnold and Bella Posy.
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Deena Metzger first attended college from 1953 to 1955 at Brandeis University.
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Deena Metzger received a PhD in Literature and Women's Culture from International College in 1975.
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Deena Metzger subsequently brought the case to court and was reinstated in 1972.
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Deena Metzger taught in the Critical Studies Department at the California Institute of the Arts from 1970 to 1975.
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Deena Metzger was co-editor of Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals, with Linda Hogan and Brenda Peterson, a critical text on animal intelligence and agency published in 1998, that speaks to the profound knowledge that is gathered when relationships are intimate rather than alienated or objectified.
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Deena Metzger is on the Faculty of the Kerulos Center.