Jyl Lynn Felman is an award-winning writer, cultural activist, and performance artist whose work has appeared in over twenty newspapers, literary journals, and anthologies. She has been featured on radio, including BBC and NPR. She is the author of two other books, Never a Dull Moment:Teaching and the Art of Performance and Cravings. Her one-act play Voices was selected for the reading series at the 2nd Annual International Women Playwrights Festival in Toronto and produced by the Evergreen Theater Festival. She is also an attorney, and lectures widely on racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia. She currently teaches in the Judaic Studies Program. Felman’s Performing Cultural Rituals will be available in 2007. |
Hot Chicken Wings Bold, funny and on the edge, Hot Chicken Wings is Jewish and lesbian to the core. Jyl Lynn Felman breaks new ground in eleven highly crafted stories about family secrets, anti-Semitism, and sacred lesbian myths.
"With her sharp-eyed sensibility and spare, distinctive prose, the work of Jyl Lynn Felman is always revealing as she tracks the forbidden edges of being Jewish, female, lesbian at the end of the twentieth century."
— Adrienne Rich “A unique voice. Her stories are both noble and enticing.” —Margaret Randall “She confronts race and ethnicity with a badly needed authenticity. Her bold, passionate style is well-suited for an uncanny willingness to explore core issues affecting us as people as well as individuals.” —Sabrina Sojourner, Congresswoman, activist, author of Psychic Scars and Other Mad Thoughts “Voices”--Provocative!" —Cheryl Clarke “Jelly Rolls” Emerges as unforgettable." —Amherst Bulletin
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