Lucina Kathmann (1942-present) is an American writer and activist. She has published books, essays, and short stories internationally in multiple languages. She has been an active member of
PEN International since 1986[1] and helped found the organization's Women Writers Committee in 1991. Lucina represents PEN International at the
United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
She taught philosophy at
Barat College for a few years.[2]
Kathmann's writing is mainly about women, their struggles and accomplishments, their suppression and their extraordinary contributions to freedom and to literature. In 1989, her novel, The Adventures of the Magnificent Kong and Brawny Mouse was published by Liberty Press and later came out on special tapes for the blind.[3]
Moving forward, she wrote a lot of her own pieces in English and Spanish. Throughout the nineties, Kathmann published essays, poetry, translations and children's stories in a variety of magazines, anthologies, and other venues."[4] A bilingual anthology of her children’s stories, Payshapes and the Bear, was published in 1999, which was recognized as a finalist in the International Book Awards, sponsored by USA Book News.[5]
Selected bibliography
Books
The Adventure of the Magnificent Kong and Brawny Mouse, 1988
Payshapes and the Bear, Chiron Books, (English/Spanish)[6]
To Make Ourselves Heard/Para que nos escuchen : historias del Comité de Escritos del, Biblioteca de Textos Universitarios, 2002[7]