Literature
San Fransisco, CA
September 2001, September 2007, September 2011, September 2015
Elaine Elinson is a creative writer and editor based in San Fransisco, CA.
Her freelance articles and essays have appeared in The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, California History, AmerAsia, Poets and Writers, The Veteran, Women in Judaism, West Marin Review, and other newspapers, magazines and journals. She coauthored with Stan Yogi, Wherever There’s a Fight: How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California (Heyday Books, 2009; 10th Anniversary edition(2019) which was awarded the Gold Medal in California Book Awards. She is a book reviewer for Kirkus, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ms. magazine, and the Jewish Book Review. Elinson served for two decades as the communications director of the ACLU of Northern California and editor of the ACLU News. As a researcher/writer for the National Park Service, Elinson helped curate exhibits on a successful challenge to the color bar at Sutro Baths by an African American waiter in 1897, the brutal treatment of Conscientious Objectors in the military prison on Alcatraz during World War I, abolitionists and suffragists. Elinson was named a San Francisco Public Library Laureate. Her new novel, Radiant as the Stars, will be published in August, 2026; it is inspired by her grandmother’s diaries spanning the years 1905-1918, with entries from a shtetl in Ukraine to a tenement in Chicago.
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