Robin Morgan (www.robinmorgan.us) is a founder of The Women’s Media Center. Her latest book is Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right (Nation Books).An award-winning writer, feminist leader, political analyst, journalist, editor, and best-selling author, Robin Morgan has published more than 20 books, including six books of poetry, four novels, and the now-classic anthologies Sisterhood Is Powerful (Random House, 1970) and Sisterhood Is Global  (Doubleday, l984; updated edition, The Feminist Press, 1996); with the recent Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women’s Anthology for A New Millennium (Washington Square Press, 2003). Sisterhood Is Powerful was named “One of the 100 Most Influential Books of the 20th Century,” along with the works of Marx, Einstein, and Freud, by the American Librarians’ Association. Morgan’s other books include Upstairs in the Garden: Selected and New Poems (1994) and  A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999 (both Norton), Saturday’s Child: A Memoir (Norton, 2000), and her best-selling The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism (Norton, 1989, 2nd ed, new Introduction and Afterword, by Washington Square Press, 2001), Her latest novel,The Burning Time (Melville House, 2006) has been bought for a major motion picture.

A founder and leader of contemporary US feminism, she has also been a leader in the international women’s movement for more than 30 years. She came to political activism through the 1960s’ Civil Rights and anti-war movements, and organized the first major contemporary feminist protest in the US: the famous 1968 Miss America Pageant Protest.

Her lifelong involvement with all forms of media began when she had her own national radio program on WOR (at age five, as recounted in her memoir). She was a working child actor, a well- known TV star in the 1950s. Yet she left show business by age 16 to pursue her writing career. Since then, she has worked in virtually every medium: newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television, and online.
An invited speaker at every major university in North America, from Harvard and Yale to community colleges, she has traveled--as organizer, lecturer, journalist--across Europe, to Australia, Brazil, the Caribbean, Central America, China, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Nepal, New Zealand, Pacific Island nations, the Philippines, and South Africa. She has twice (1986 and 1989) spent months in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Syria, West Bank, and Gaza, reporting on the conditions of women. Morgan has been a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Bologna (Italy), the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand), the University of Denver (Colorado), Rutgers University (New Jersey), and Oxford and the London Art Institute (England).
Her political analyses and journalism have been published in such periodicals as The Guardian UK, The Hudson Review, The Los Angeles Times, Ms., The NewRepublic, The New York Times, The Village Voice, andnumerous United Nations' journals. Her poems have appeared widely, in,  for example, The American Poetry Review, Antioch Review, The Atlantic, Poetry (Chicago), Poetry International, The Sewanee Review, The Woman's Review of Books, and The Yale Review. Her online serial publication, Letters from Ground Zero, written after 9/11, has been released in an audio version by Engine Company Records (www.enginecompanyrecords.com).

Founder and President of The Sisterhood Is Global Institute (www.SIGI.org) and co-founder of The Women’s Media Center,  she has co-founded and serves on the boards of many women’s organizations in the US and abroad. In 1990, as Ms. Editor-in-Chief, she relaunched the magazine as an international, award-winning, ad-free bimonthly, resigning four years later to become Consulting Global Editor (www.MsMagazine.com).

Morgan is a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize (Poetry), an awardee of Yaddo Residencies, the Front Page Award for Distinguished Journalism, the Feminist Majority Foundation Award, The “Freethinking Heroine” Award from The Freedom from Religion Foundation, a “Femmy” Award for service to women’s literature from The Feminist Press, the Exceptional Merit in Journalism Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus, the Lifetime Achievement in Human Rights Award from Equality Now, and numerous other honors. Morgan’s papers are archived at the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Perkins Library, Duke University (http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/women).

She is the happily divorced mother of a grown son, singer-songwriter Blake Morgan, and she lives in New York City. For further information and for ongoing, updated news about publications and appearances, visit www.RobinMorgan.us.