Maida Tilchen papers.

The Maida Tilchen papers consist of approximately 1.5 linear feet of material dating from 1973 to 2021. The collection consists of correspondence, unpublished essays, journal entries, published articles, concert ephemera, interviews with musicians, recordings of women's music and other performances. Audio recordings will be transferred to a digital format for user access.

Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Maida Tilchen papers, MSS 794, Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections, MSU Libraries, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

This collection was donated by Maida Tilchen in 2021.

Complete issues of the Gay Community News can be found at: Northeastern University Library Digital Repository Service. Bromfield Street Educational Foundation: Gay Community News .

Maida Tilchen, born in 1949 in Brooklyn, N.Y., received her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from SUNY Stony Brook in 1971, and a Master of Science in Education in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University in 1976. From 1973-1974, Tilchen served with the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) in Vincennes, Indiana. From 1976 to 1993, she held various research and writing jobs. She moved to Boston in 1980. From 1993-2001, she worked as a writing tutor at Cambridge College in Massachusetts. In 2001, Cambridge College promoted her to direct library services where she remained until her retirement in 2015. Tilchen helped produce women's music concerts in Bloomington Indiana from 1975-1980. She co-wrote the first article about lesbian pulps by ⁰́₋second wave⁰́₊ lesbians, published in Margins Magazine in 1975. From 1976, she published articles in a variety of feminist and LGBT books and publications, including Body Politic and Gay Community News, writing primarily on women's music, LGBT literature, Jewish, and anti-nuclear issues. From 1980-1982, she was the Promotions Manager at Gay Community News (Boston). In the early 1980s, she helped backstage for Allegra Productions in Boston, Mass. In 1982, Tilchen wrote the foreword to The Lesbian in Literature: A Bibliography (Tallahassee, Fla.: Naiad Press, 1981). Her historical novel, Land Beyond Maps (Salem, NY: Savvy Press, 2009) was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Lesbian Debut Fiction in 2010 and won New Mexico and Arizona Book Association awards. Her second novel, She's Gone Santa Fe (Salem, NY: Savvy Press, 2013) was a finalist for New Mexico and Arizona Book Association awards. In 2020, Tilchen won the Ticknor Society Book and Book Culture Collecting prize for her New Mexico book collection.