Lisa E. Davis
She has lived in Greenwich Village for 40 years and loves to write about it. With a PhD in Comparative Literature, she worked for years in SUNY and CUNY, and at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Hunter College. Her essays in North American, Latin American and European journals, and lectures in the US and abroad, explored diverse topics. Lately, her writing has appeared in anthologies and periodicals dedicated to LGBTQ culture. Her historical novel Under the Mink (Alyson, 2001), about drag queens and kings who worked in Village Mafia-owned nightclubs of the 1940s, grew out of her long-time friendship with many of them. Please see www.underthemink.com for information about the new edition (2014)from IntoPrintPublishing.com.
Her latest manuscript, with the working title The FBI’s Lesbian, http://lisaedavis.wix.com/fbilesbian is the true story of a notorious Village lesbian who worked undercover for the FBI in the CPUSA and testified at the first federal trial (1949) of the Party leadership.