Deena Metzger
Deena (photographer: Jessica Shokrian)
Poet, novelist, essayist, playwright and storyteller is an Earth activist with over 12 published books and a multitude of essays, articles, poems, and stories. She has tried to be faithful to the calling of healer and medicine woman and has taught and counseled for over fifty years.
She has published more than 12 books including novels, La Vieja: A Journal of Fire, A Rain of Night Birds, La Negra y Blanca, winner Oakland PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, non fiction, Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing and Tree: Essays and Pieces, and poetry, Ruin and Beauty, New and Selected Poems.
Her play, Dreams Against the State, received many different productions in a variety of venues. Writing For Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds, her classic book on writing is still in print since 1992! As a healer she has introduced ReVisioning Medicine, 19 Ways (for a Viable Future for All Beings) Literature of Restoration and Healing Stories which creatively address life threatening diseases, spiritual and emotional crises, as well as community, political and environmental disintegration.
Deena lives at the end of the road at the edge of a wild park with Mountain Lion, Coyote, Raven, Owl and others as companions. There she holds Daré, the gathering of the community on behalf of healing.
