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Judy Grahn (* July 28 1940 in Chicago ) is an American author.

Grahn was born in Chicago and currently lives in California. She writes in English poetry and novels. Grahn was a member of the Gay Women's Liberation Group, the first lesbian feminist organization on the West Coast of the United States, founded in 1969.

The organization opened a bookstore and a publishing The Women's Press Collective (WPC), which specialized in books for women. The WPC began publishing in 1969 in Oakland and lasted until 1978. Were among the most published books of WPC including A Woman is Talking to Death, Lesbians Speak Out and Edward the Dyke.

Grahn is the Deputy Director of the Women's Spirituality MA program and program director of the MFA in Creative Inquiry at New College of California . Grahn initiated further the academic journal Metaformia.

• Edward the Dyke and Other Poems, 1971
• A Woman is Talking to Death, 1974
• She Who, 1977
• The Queen of Wands, 1982
• The Work of a Common Woman: Collected Poetry (1964-1977), 1984
• The Queen of Swords, 1990

• Ella in a Square Apron, Along Highway 80, 1971
• Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worlds (1990 about the history of LGBT culture) (won the Stonewall Book Award )
• Blood, Bread and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World, 1994
• Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition, 1985
• Mundane's World, 1988