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ALEXIS KRASILOVSKY is the author of Great Adaptations: Screenwriting and Global Storytelling (Routledge) and the novel Sex and the Cyborg Goddess (under the name Alexis Rafael). She also wrote the poetry chapbook/DVD, Some Women Writers Kill Themselves, co-wrote Shooting Women: Behind the Camera, Around the World (Intellect/U.Chicago Press), and contributed to the books Women on Poetry and Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. As writer/director, her films include End of the Art World, Exile, Beale Street, Let Them Eat Cake, and Women Behind the Camera – winner of five Best Documentary awards and available through Amazon Video Prime. Alexis was one of the first women to graduate from Yale. She also holds an MFA from CalArts. Her short film about menstrual rage, Blood, was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times as “in its stream-of-consciousness way, more powerful than Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. She is currently Professor of Screenwriting at California State University, Northridge. -- The Native Society