Weinbaum, Batya
Entry updated 3 August 2026. Tagged: Author, Editor.
Working name of US critic, academic, poet, editor and author Betty Susan Weinbaum (1952-2026), most of her work being focused on women's studies (see Feminism) within and without the regions of Speculative Fiction, or more broadly Fantastika. She began to publish fiction of genre interest with "Bapka in Brooklyn" in Tales of Magic Realism by Women: Dreams in a Minor Key (anth 1991) edited by Susanna J Sturgis. Weinbaum founded (in September 1999) and edited the feminist journal Femspec, which publishes both fiction and nonfiction, and also compiled a selection from its first years, Feminist Voices: The Best of Femspec's Creative Work: The First Ten Years (anth 2013). Her own fiction, much of which has been assembled as The Island of Floating Women (coll 1994), runs a gamut from a stretched naturalism through Magic Realism into Absurdist SF. The Nightmares of Sasha Weitzwoman (2010) Equipoisally juxtaposes critical analysis and surreal fantasy in its examination of the Israeli-Palestinian nightmare over the past decades. [JC]
Betty Susan Weinbaum
born Ann Arbor, Michigan: 2 February 1952
died USA: 8 June 2026
works (selected)
- The Island of Floating Women (San Diego, California: Clothespin Fever Press, 1994) [coll: pb/Batya Weinbaum]
- The Nightmares of Sasha Weitzwoman (Cleveland Heights, Ohio: Femspec Press, 2010) [pb/Batya Weinbaum]
nonfiction
- Islands of Women and Amazons: Representation of Realities (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1999) [nonfiction: hb/]
works as editor
- Feminist Voices: The Best of Femspec's Creative Work: The First Ten Years (Seattle, Washington: Aqueduct Press, 2013) [anth: fiction/nonfiction: pb/]
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