About
Since childhood, Kathy Biehl has scribbled down observations of human behavior and attempted to make sense of it. She gave up writing fiction long ago. A decades-long contributor to mainstream periodicals, Kathy gained national underground renown in the 1990s as the publisher, Editrix, and main voice of the social commentary zine Ladies’ Fetish & Taboo Society Compendium of Urban Anthropology.
She is the author of Confessions of a Third-Rate Goddess: Traipsing Through a World Gone Weird (9th House 2023) and Eat, Drink & Be Wary: Cautionary Tales (9th House 2021), which was shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award grand prize.
She has co-authored or contributed to guides on legal Internet research, dining, and personal empowerment, including Your Guide to Self-Discovery: Twenty Ways to the True You (Llewellyn 2023). Her writing has won awards from the Association of Food Journalists, Houston Press Club, and Texas Bar Journal.
Featured Work
Confessions of a Third-Rate Goddess: Traipsing Through a World Gone Weird
At the end of the 20th century, while mainstream media popularized an expensively dressed version of modern adult life, a rawer, and definitely weirder, reality was playing out off-screen. Columnist and zinester Kathy Biehl chronicled that from a singular and heavily trafficked intersection – collision point, some might say – of young professionals, performing and outsider artists, Unitarians, gays and lesbians, metaphysicians, traveling statues, and people who defied categorizing. With eyebrow firmly arched, this essay collection snapshots their sexual tension, ambivalence, and confusion, along with perils of fan mail and professional caroling; celebrities (real and impersonators), snooping repairmen \and divine manifestations; ludicrous journeys, backstage dramas, and driveway parties; close-ups with a strange, frightening disease; her own, accidental attainment of goddesshood; and other mystery-marvels of life on the bridge to the millennium.
