Donna Kaz
Donna Kaz is a multigenre writer and a feminist activist based in New York City. She has written for Trivia: Voices of Feminism, The Dramatist, Ful Art magazine, Girl Drive Blog, Lilith, Gender Across Borders, Women’s Studies Quarterly and Step Away Magazine (Pushcart prize nomination). Her plays and performances have been produced at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Harlem Stage, Trinity College/Dublin, The Spit Lit Festival/London, International Women’s Arts Festival/UK, Women Playwrights International Conference/Sweden, City of Women Festival/Slovenia, Kultury w Poznaniu/Poland and Lincoln Center. For her work creating activist art addressing gender parity, violence against women, reproductive rights and the intersection of feminism and comedy she has received the Yoko Ono Courage Award for the Arts, the Skowhegan medal, Art is a Hammer Award and an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant. donnakaz.com
Works
Even Coybows Carry Cell Phones
Even Cowboys Carry Cell Phones - Teresa Milbrodt (Editor)
Volume Two, Manifest West Series, Western Press Books
Like any legendary figure, the cowboy is part myth and part reality, memorialized by history and Hollywood, envied by those who spend days at desks and dream of trading swivel chairs for saddles. The writings in this anthology serve as testament to the cultural love, bordering on obsession, of the American cowboy. These works cover the gamut, from the romanticized movie cowboy to ranchers, freelancers, and contemporary wranglers who wear hoodies and work in massive feedlot pens.
The cowboy that emerges from this collection is multifaceted, as the book juxtaposes cowboys spraying longhorns at a car wash to cowboys advertising services on Craigslist and Pepsi-drinking cowboys riding Amtrak trains. There are portraits of the old cowboys, crotchety coffee-swigging men with too many stories about how things were better four decades ago. However, the figure remains one constructed of loyalties—loyalty to work, loyalty to family, loyalty to animals, loyalty to the land.
The image of the cowboy is vivid in our imagination, inseparable from Western mythology, a means to connect ourselves with the wild and rugged individuals we dream we used to be. In this age of computers and cubicles we want to touch and preserve that history, but we must allow for shifting traditions. As the thirty-five authors in this collection will remind you, even cowboys carry cell phones.
Contributors to the anthology:
Gina Bernard, Michelle Bonczek, Allen Braden, Sarah Brown-Weitzman, Sally Clark, Peter Clarke, F. Brett Cox, David Lavar Coy, Carolyn Dahl, Heather Fowler, Carol Guererro-Murphy, Lyla D. Hamilton, Merrill Jones, Echo Kalprath, Donna Kaz, Rick Kempa, klipschutz, Tricia Knoll, Ellaraine Lockie, John McCarthy, Anna Moore, William Notter, Stephen Page, Robert Rebein, Heather Sappenfield, Michael Shay, Tom Sheehan, Red Shuttleworth, M. R. Smith, Adam Tavel, Don Thackrey, Joe Wilkins, Leonore Wilson, Kathleen Winter, Brenda Yates
Awards and Recognition
- Elizabeth George Foundation Grant
- Skowhegan Medal for outstanding contributions to artmaking
- Yoko Ono Courage Award for the Arts
- Art is a Hammer Award
- Jason Miller Award
Website
Location
New York, NY
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Category
Poetry, Humor, General Non-Fiction, Essays