Susan G. Cole, Sr. Entertainment Editor

From lesbo-punks Tribe 8 to Pulitzer Prize winner Toni Morrison, Susan discovers the city's best entertainment bets week after week. In addition to being NOW's books editor, Susan also writes about music, theatre, politics and cultural criticism.

Susan was born in Toronto and has her bachelor's degree from Harvard - where she fought like hell against the big boy's club. But - some see a paradox here - she is a mammoth sports fan, particularly of baseball and did NOW's first baseball cover story on Carlos Delgado (who, she says, be MVP some day). She's also written about everything from lesbo-punks Tribe 8 to Pulitzer Prizewinning Toni Morrison, with the likes of Ellen Degeneres and Margaret Atwood in between.

As a lover of musical theatre, a co-founder of Mama Quilla II, Toronto's first all-female band and a member of the No Frills band, Susan is a pioneer in women's music and has been writing about it since NOW was founded. She is also an expert in the area of violence against women and many of her NOW pieces on the subject are included in a collection of her work called Power Surge: Sex, Violence and Pornography (Second Story). Her first book, Pornography and the Sex Crisis (Second Story), is required reading in many Women Studies courses across the country.Her play, A Fertile Imagination, a comedy developed through Nightwood Theatre, is about a lesbian couple trying to have a baby, and was one of the first works to deal with the issue of lesbian motherhood.

Susan debated daily with right-wing Christian ideologue Michael Coren on CFRB's talk radio, and makes frequent TV appearances, especially on TVO's Studio 2 program and WTN's Smart Women's panel. You can also read Susan in Herizons magazine, a Canadian feminist quarterly.

Susan lives in downtown Toronto with her partner and their daughter.

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