Rachel Bagby

Rachel Bagby (February 11, 1956) is a US-based, internationally renowned, award-winning performance artist, author, poet, composer, and vocalist.

Biography

Rachel Bagby is the author of Divine Daughters: Liberating the Power and Passion of Women's Voices (Harper San Francisco, 1999). Her publications include articles about sustainability in Natural Home, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Ms. Magazine, Women of Power, and others, as well as poetry in literary journals. Her anthologized contributions can be found in Nature and the Human Spirit: Toward an Expanded Land Management Ethic, (Venture Publishing, State College, PA, 1995); Circles of Strength: Community Alternatives to Alienation, (New Society Publishing, Philadelphia, PA 1993); Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism, (Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, CA 1990); and Healing the Wounds (New Society Publishing, Santa Cruz, CA: 1989).

She has released two recordings of her compositions, Full and Reach Across the Lines. Full features her soundtrack for the Emmy Award-winning documentary, Dialogues with Mad Women.

Bagby has established Singing Farm, a solar-powered, 20-acre organic farm and musical learning center in Central Virginia.

Awards

Donella Meadows Sustainability Institute Fellow (2009 – 2010) Arts and Healing Network Artist of the Year Award (2008) Bioneers Award (2003) Advisory Council for the River of Words program co-founded by former US Poet Laureate Robert Haas

Bibliography

Bagby, Rachel (1999). Divine Daughters. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0062514261. Driver, Driver (1996). Nature and the Human Spirit. State College: Venture Pub. ISBN 0910251827. Forsey, Helen (1993). Circles of Strength. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers. ISBN 086571259X. Diamond, Irene (1990). Reweaving the World. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. ISBN 0871566230.