Metzger, Deena P.
METZGER, Deena P.
METZGER, Deena P. American, b. 1936. Genres: Novels, Plays/ Screenplays, Poetry, Writing/Journalism, Essays, Autobiography/Memoirs. Career: Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, Calif., professor of English, 1966-77; writer, healer, and lay analyst, 1977-. Founder and director of writing program at the Woman's Building, Los Angeles, Calif., 1972-77; member of faculty at California Institute of the Arts, 1969-75, and Feminist Studio Workshop, 1972-77; co-leader of workshop in Greece recreating Eleusinian mysteries, 1980 and 1990. Creator of "Healing Stories," a therapeutic means to address issues of creativity, personal transition, emotional distress, and life-threatening diseases. Publications: Skin: Shadows/Silence (novel), 1976; Not as Sleepwalkers (play), 1977; Dark Milk (poetry), 1978; The Axis Mundi Poems, 1981; The Woman Who Slept with Men to Take the War Out of Them, 1981; Tree, 1981; Dreams Against the State, 1981; What Dinah Thought (novel), 1989; Looking for the Faces of God (poetry), 1989; Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner World, 1992; A Sabbath among the Ruins (poetry), 1992; Tree: Essays and Pieces, 1997; (ed. with B. Peterson and L. Hogan) Intimate Nature, 1998; The Other Hand, 2000. Address: PO Box 186, Topanga, CA 90290, U.S.A.