LIVE THROUGH THIS
PRESS KIT

“A stunning book. I found myself dreaming conversations with some of the writers —engaging in the conversation they begin here.”

- Dorothy Allison, author of ‘Bastard Out of Carolina’

“This intimate book gives you all the tools for self-emergence. Grabbing a pen, a crayon, a camera can be the means to an artistic process that will help you figure out who you are, and how you fit in."

- Janeane Garofalo, comedienne

"Sabrina Chapadjiev’s anthology, Live Through This: On Creativity and Self Destruction, strikes me in all ways as a carefully crafted object—which so few books are these days."

-Courtney Martin, author of "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters"

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NAN GOLDIN

photo by Peter Dressel

Eileen Myles is the author of more than 20 books, plays, libretti, performances, Sorry, Tree being her latest (poems). She's a New Yorker.

Inga M. Muscio is the author of Cunt: A Declaration of Independence and Autobiography of a Blue Eyed Devil. She does a lot of public speaking, and lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Elizabeth M. Stephens was born in West Virginia. She is a Professor of Art and of Digital Art/New Media and is affiliated with the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Currently she is the chair of the Art Department.  Stephens is an inter-media artist who works in sculpture, video installation, photography, web based media, performance art and home renovation.  Her most recent works include the bronze sculptural installation , The Academic/Porn Star Panty Collection; the road trip performance piece Wish You Were Here ; the video installation, Kiss, a s well as her ongoing collaboration with Annie Sprinkle in the Love Art Laboratory .  She has exhibited in museums, galleries and non-profit spaces throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Russia. 

Annie M.  Sprinkle is based out of a lovely Victorian home in San Francisco with Elizabeth.  In a former life Sprinkle was a proud prostitute, porn actress, pin-up model, for twenty years in Manhattan.  Then she became a full time performance artist and toured one-woman shows about her life in the sex industry all over the USA, and to many  other countries. Her shows, Post Porn Modernist, and Annie Sprinkle's Herstory of Porn are studied in many Universities/colleges. Annie loves to do visiting artist lectures for adult students, and teach them the Art of Making Love . She has written several published books, her last one being Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular Sex--Make Over Your Love Life (Penguin) For more juicy details, vintage nude and fetish photos, writings and musings, and to collect Annie's artworks, books and DVDs go to www.anniesprinkle.org .  

Stephanie Howell is a performance artist whose work is based in identity, the performance of fatness, burlesquing the body, and the abject. Stephanie has performed at various theaters, universities, and performance spaces across the US. She teaches performance and communication studies at the College of Communication at DePaul University.

Carolyn Gage  is a lesbian-feminist playwright, performer, director and activist.  She is the author of fifty-six plays and five books, four of which are on lesbian theatre.  Her play Ugly Ducklings was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the ATCA/Steinberg Award for best new play of the year produced outside New York .  The play is the subject of a national documentary on harassment and suicide of GBLT youth. ( www.uglyducklings.com ) Her  work has been featured in the Washington Post and on National Public Radio, and has been acclaimed by such noted feminists at Andrea Dworkin, Jewelle Gomez, Phyllis Chesler, and John Stoltenberg.  In 2003, her play The Second Coming of Joan of Arc was given a first-class production in Brazil , where it was the top-selling show in both Rio and Sao Paulo. She tours internationally, offering performances, lectures and workshops on lesbian theatre, survivor culture, and non-traditional roles for women.  Her books and plays are available at her website, www.carolyngage.com

SILAS HOWARD, (writer, director, and musician), co-directed his first feature, By Hook Or By Crook , with Harry Dodge. The indie classic was a 2002 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL premiere and five-time Best Feature winner.    Howard's next feature , Exactly Like You , (co-written with Nina Landey), is a Nantucket Screenwriters Colony 2004 fellow and finalist for the 2005 Sundance Filmmaker's lab. Howard's first short documentary, What I Love About Dying (2006), premiered at the 2006 SUNDANCE Film Festival.

For eight years, Howard toured nationally and internationally with his band, Tribe 8 . The notorious punk band released four full-length recordings on Alternative Tentacles and was featured in Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Interview, Billboard, Elle and The Los Angeles Times . A feature length documentary about the band, Rise Above, by Tracy Flannegan garnered several awards in 2004.

Toni Blackman is the first Hip Hop artist selected to work as a Cultural Ambassador traveling with the US Dept. of State. She has traveled throughout Africa and Southeast Asia, often working in some of the world's most war-torn nation states to bring reconciliation and rehabilitation to those regions. She has also traveled the globe as a lyrical performance specialist, performing in Europe, Canada, and the United States. Toni's first book Inner-Course (Villard/Random House) was released in late 2003.   She is currently working on a second book that details her plight as the 1st Hip Hop Ambassador for the State Department.