Donations


We at Persimmon Tree are dedicated to bringing you creative fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art from women over sixty.

Our commitment comes from seeing too many excellent older women writers and artists ignored or disregarded. We live in a youth-oriented society that fails to validate, much less venerate, these women's talent and skill. Yet they have so much to offer. Decades of life experience have prepared them to speak to the largest questions, and they know how to do this in a multiplicity of ways.

Persimmon Tree wants to make older women's work available to all ages.

The task is huge. Those of us who are doing it are volunteers, except for our web staff. The editor puts in very long hours, as do the contributing editors. Creating a magazine takes a lot of time and money.

We're deeply committed—but you can help, too. Consider sending a donation. No amount is too small; everything will be very much appreciated. (For information on our privacy policy, click here.)

1. Click here to pay with a credit card

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2. Write a check made out to Fractured Atlas* and send it to: Persimmon Tree, 1534 Campus Drive, Berkeley CA 94708

*Fractured Atlas is a non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations by providing vital services, including fiscal sponsorship, to support their work.

Whichever way you make your gift, many thanks in helping to grow this persimmon tree!


Donors

Sustainers

Charlotte W. Alexander
Michael S. and Adrianne Bank
Anita Aragon Bowers
Wendy Barker
Karen Cooper
Susan Dworkin
Lainey Feingold
Patricia Fischer
Estelle Haferling
Pila Hall
Erica Hiersteiner
Janet Holmgren
Michelle Holstein
Barbara Kane
Ann Langdon
Sue Leonard
Dale Rogers Marshall
Susan Nestor
Jonathan Omer-Man
Doreen Piellucci
Ruth Resch
Elizabeth Rosenberg
Joan Roth
Arlene Shmaeff
Katherine Sklar
Louise Farmer Smith
Marion Souyoultzis
Hedy Straus
The Entrekin Foundation
Brenda Webster
Marilyn Yalom
Barbara Zoloth

Sponsors

Yolanda Adelson
Judy Barber
Teresa Baum
Janine Beichman
Bronwyn Belling
Lyn Brakeman
Jill Breckenridge
Esther Broner
Roberta Burton
Lauren Chaitken
Patrick Coffey and Ellen Pulleybank
David Cooper
Elaine Cory
Wendy Cosin
Marie Daniely
Elana Dykewoman and Susan Levinkind
Elaine Edelman
Meredith Escudier
Leanne Flanagan
Paula Freed
Eileen Ganfors
Gloria Gordon
Norma Gorst
Linda Gould
Charlotte Gray
Terry Greenblatt
Sheila Grinell
Linda Hammond
Alice Herbert
Carolyn Jackson
Eva Kollisch
Patricia LaPointe
Elizabeth Lara
Adrienne Levin
Kate Levy
Stephanie Mendel
Elizabeth Seja Min
Marian Mogulescu
Jean Moore
Elizabeth Morana
Leonora A. Morrison
Marilyn Mumford
Viktoria Norberg
Diana O'Hehir
Gloria Orenstein
Jean Pauline
Shakuntala Rajagopal
Ruth Saxton
Gerda Seaman
Katheryn Shaver
Carolyn Stayback
Merryl Weber
Steve Weber
Catharine and Frank Williams
Rona Yohalem

Supporters

Marianne Abel-Lipschutz
H.A. Alcaro
Clare Aronson
Mary Jo Balistreri
Julia Ballerini
Lynne Banchoff
Shanti Bannwart
Nancy Barker
Ann C. Barnard
Anne Barrows
Nancy Belbas
Myra Bellin
Arlene Bice
Betsy Blakeslee
Kathleen Bonnie
Esther Bradley-Detally
Carol Brockfield
Jeanne Brondino
Margaret Bruce
Michelle Cacho-Negrete
Darlene Ceremello
Janice Chan
Chevron Humankind, Chevron Corp.
Catharine Clark-Sayles
Gail Comorat
Blair Cooper
Claudine Corbanese
Catherine E. Coulson
Elaine D'Agostino
Joanne Dann
Nancy Ruth Davis
Mary Donnelly
Judith Dublin
Cynthia Dyer
Marian Edson
Trudy Foote
Vicki Friedman
Carolyn Gardner
Barbara Gaters
Louise Gilbert
Gail Gilliland
Phyllis Glazerman
Lorrie Goldensohn
Diane Goldstein
Nancie Gonzalez
June Goodwin
Phyllis Green
Ila Grobe
Dorien Grunbaum
Rosemary F. Hamm
Susan Hennigh
Gillian Herbert
Martha Holstein
Shirlee Hoffman
Judith Hoy
Janet Innes
Kelley Jacquez
Nancy Jainchill
Jacqueline Jones
Lynne Kaplowitz
Eileen Kelly
Louise Kertesz
Helen Kho
Marlaina Krause
Lucy Kuemmerle
Patricia Lawson
Lorraine Lerman
Joan Lerner
MaryEllen Letarte
Lori Levy
Deena Linett
Carol Litwin
Anne Lovett
Linda Luster
Jan Maher
Ruth Marcus
Helen McKenna
Merimee Moffitt
Nancy Montague
Margaret Mullins
Carol Newhouse
Sally Nielsen
Naomi Newman
Lalita Noronha
Nicki Nymark
Beverly Offen
Elizabeth O'Herlihey
Kossia Orloff
Chris Orr
Gail Peck
Diana Pinckney
Nancy Poling
Sylvia Pollack
Susan Pope
Helen Popenoe
Shirley Pullan
Nancy Purcell
Sally Arango Renata
Lilly Rivlin
Naomi Robinson
Lois Roelofs
Anita Rosenberg
Marcia Ross
Martin Roth
Phyllis Rozman
Sarah Ruddick
Claire Ruder
Sara Rupnik
Carol Sanders
Teya Schaffer
Joanne Schmitt
Cornelia Schulz
Madeline Sharples
Shirley Shatsky
Zahava Sherez
Donna Siegal
Linda Sievers
Charlene Spretnak
Elaine Starkman
Hannah Stein
Judy Stone
Sue Swartz
Eleanor Swent
Seema Tepper
Anne Thomas
Sally Thomason
Joan Tobin
Linda Umans
Joanne Vickers
Barbara Wade
Brenda Webster
Arlene Williamson
Susan Wisehart
Susan Yankowitz
Patricia Magee Young
Natalie Zarchin
Gilda Zelin



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