Elga Antonsen, author of “Road Dance”, a collection of poems, published by Soul Garden Press, Malden on Hudson, NY 2010. With her family, she published a book of poetry and stories, “Daring to Dream”, by New Era Publishers, Staten Island, NY 1977. She is writing a memoir, “Singing Out of Tune”, soon to be published.
It is told from the point of view of a child raised by open Communists during the McCarthy era. Her mother lost her job many times because the FBI let her politics be known to the principal of the school where she was teaching. Her father, a carpenter, mad scientist and philosopher, worked when he could, after being shut out of a government job for the same reason.

Elga has participated in AVP, Alternatives to Violence Program at local prisons, and Family of New Paltz. She is co-host at Spoken Word at the Sanctuary of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Kingston. She considers racism, sexism and all the other isms are problems to be solved in working towards peace and global survival. She is married to Bill Brown the owner of Brillig’s Books, an online bookstore. A great-grandmother, she believes that young people are our best hope.