By the time she reached twenty-five, Diana Somerville had lived at dozens of addresses in seven different states. But Colorado was the one place that felt like home. So when divorce left her with a part-time job and two young daughters to support, she hunkered down in Boulder, stumbled into a career as a science writer, and began the process of transforming herself into an effective social activist, an award-winning freelance writer, editor and teacher.
A spiritual feminist who combines real-world concerns with multifaceted idealism, she has co-taught an innovative women’s studies course for non-traditional students, led political actions, offered workshops on ritual, magic, mystery, and the mythic structure of dreams. She’s probably the only person to have taught both women studies and science writing at the University of Colorado.
Nearly twenty years as part of an ongoing women’s spiritual circle has given her an experiential grounding in feminist theology and cosmic spirituality. Author of hundreds of magazine articles, she was a regular columnist for the Daily Camera in Boulder for several years before moving to Washington's Olympic Peninsula.
She now lives on a bluff overlooking the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Victoria, British Columbia.
Email her at: writer@olypen.com.
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Cover Artist Carmel Middletent is the only Australian Aboriginal artist known to be painting in the U.S. today. Working in the powerfully symbolic Aboriginal tradition for expressing the ancient origins of life and land, she creates vivid works that have won numerous awards and been featured in solo shows on the West coast.
“Orion,” on the cover, depicts a story from her mother’s country, she explains: “It is said long ago in our Aboriginal mythological stories that there were blonde-haired people with blue eyes wearing dolphin pendants who would come and visit the Aboriginal people in an area in Gympie. The story is also that these people came from the star system Orion, and that they built the pyramids which are still here today in Gympie, called the Glass House Mountains.”
Born in Brisbane of Aboriginal ancestry, Carmel moved to the US in 1988 and is writing and illustrating an autobiography, Down Under the House. Her own experiences of personal displacement lie at the heart of her work as she continues to find new ways to reconnect with her past, keep her cultural heritage alive and advance as an artist. Contact her at: carmelpacificblue@yahoo.com
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