{"title":"Maida Tilchen","description":"Maida Tilchen writes primarily to preserve and\/or dramatize lesbian history. Her first novel, \"Land Beyond Maps,\" was a Lambda Literary Foundation \"Lammy\" Finalist and won New Mexico and Arizona book awards. A lifetime book collector, she co-wrote the first \"second wave\" article on lesbian pulp novels, published in Margins magazine in 1975. Her writing has been published in Gay Community News; Sojourner; Body Politic; and books including Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology; Lavender Culture; Women-Identified Women; Feminist Frameworks; Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America, and includes the foreword to the bibliography The Lesbian in Literature. She served as a VISTA volunteer in southern Indiana, was promotions manager for Gay Community News (Boston), and has had many research and writing jobs in the educational field. She has visited New Mexico often since 1993. After her first trip there, wanting to continue to live in the library-rich Boston area but to keep one foot in the \"land of enchantment,\" she started writing historical fiction set in New Mexico.","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/maida-tilchen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}