STACY RUSSO - CALIFORNIA WRITER, ARTIST, LIBRARIAN, & LOVE ACTIVIST
Living My “Chocolate Before Noon” Life!
CURRENT HAPPENINGS:
BEYOND 70: The Lives of Creative Women wins a 2024 Nautilus Silver Medal Book Award in the category of Aging Consciously! Discover all of the fabulous winners on the Nautilus website. BEYOND 70 was the #1 new Amazon release in “Individual Artists Essays” for several weeks after its release. Published by Nauset Press, BEYOND 70 features the inspiring stories of phenomenal women I interviewed between the ages of 70-98.
One Day I Started a New Life, an art book featuring my collage and mixed media work from the past decade, is forthcoming in 2024 from Litwin Books.
Wild Crone Wisdom: Poetry and Stories, the second book from my recently created Wild Librarian Press, is now available. This anthology I co-edited with the wonderful Julie Artman features poetry and stories from a vibrant array of contributors. Order through these links: bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, or Amazon.
My book We Were Going to Change the World: Interviews with Women from the 1970s and 1980s Southern California Punk Rock Scene has been a text for different university classes in rock music history and women/gender studies. I’m happy to share that it was also recently adopted for high school level curriculum at Long Beach Unified School District in Long Beach, CA, beginning 2023.
Women Gathering to Create Beauty (mixed media with acrylic/paper)
What does it mean to be a love activist?
Discover the Eight Beautiful Elements of Love Activism and practices for a joyful and kind life.
Scene from Poetry Hounds (mixed media with pen/watercolor/magazine paper)