S. E. Gilman has worked in social services, publishing, bookstores, kitchens, and academia.  She has taught writing and literacy tutoring in a variety of contexts – in universities, community settings, at a correctional institution, and on reservations. Native to Galveston, Texas, she has lived in Texas, New Hampshire, Davis, California, and now in Pennsylvania. She was active in the small press movement of the seventies in Austin, and founded the magazine Hubris in New Hampshire that was called “a brash miscellany” by Pulpsmith. In a short-lived bid for something like respectability and security, she completed a Ph.D. in Language, Culture, and Society.  Her publications include an article on creative writing with teens in a homeless shelter in Creative Writing in the Community and on social justice theatre and construction of self in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Essays have been included in the anthologies Letters to Our Children: Lesbian and Gay Adults Speak to the New Generation and in Where We Find Ourselves: Jewish Women around the World Write about Home.  Her short fiction has appeared in Common Bonds: Stories by and about Modern Texas Women, and in magazines Permafrost, Hawaiian Review, Stone Drum, Oxford Magazine, modern words and others. Gilman's poetry has appeared more recently in Meat for Tea and Word Fountain. She was once a young flower; now she is an old fruit.