Kim Chernin
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Kim Chernin
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May 7, 1940 New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | writer, poet, writing and spiritual consultant, pastoral counselor |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Fiction, non-fiction, poetry |
| Subject | Feminism, Judaism, mysticism, psychoanalysis, spirituality, eating disorders, food |
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Kim Chernin (born in 1940, Bronx, New York) is a Lambda Literary Award-winning American fiction and nonfiction writer, feminist, poet, and memoirist. She has published fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
Kim Chernin was born in 1940, in the Bronx, New York. Her parents, Rose Chernin and Paul Kusnitz, were Russian-born Jewish immigrants. Rose Chernin was an organizer for the Communist Party and founded the Los Angeles Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born. Paul Kusnitz was a teacher of Marxism for the Communist Party. . Chernin's childhood was influenced by the death of her older sister, Nina, to Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Shortly after Nina's death, the Kusnitz family relocated to Los Angeles to be near relatives. Her mother resumed full-time work as a party organizer and in 1951 made national headline news when she was arrested for "advocating the overthrow of the government." Rose Chernin was later called before the House Un-American Activities Committee for her work as a party organizer. The U.S. government tried unsuccessfully to denaturalize her and deprive her of citizenship for such activities.
Kim Chernin was active as an organizer of the LYL Labor Youth League and, upon graduation from high school, traveled to Moscow for the Seventh World Festival of Youth and Students. In her memoir, In My Mother's House, Chernin writes:
Chernin moved to Berkeley to attend the University of California, Berkeley and married David Netboy at the age of 18. In 1963, her only child, Larissa, was born while she was studying at Trinity College, Dublin. She divorced seven years later, subsequently also marrying and divorcing Robert Cantor, before settling into a long-term relationship with her life-companion Renate Stendhal, with whom she co-wrote Sex and Other Sacred Games, Cecilia Bartoli: The Passion of Song and Lesbian Marriage: A Love & Sex Forever Kit. She currently lives in Point Reyes, California, where she writes and works as a pastoral counselor. She was a guest instructor at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute. She has been featured on radio, including National Public Radio. She is the recipient of an NEA grant for fiction.
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