Elana Dykewomon was a lesbian activist, author, editor, and teacher from the United States. She received the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction. Dykewomon passed away on August 7, 2022.Dykewomon was born in New York City to Jewish middle-class parents. When she was eight years old, her family relocated to Puerto Rico.
Elana Dykewomon Net Worth
Elana Dykewomon has an estimated net worth between 1 to 5 million dollars.
She majored in fine arts at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and later earned a B.F.A. in creative writing from the California Institute of Arts and an M.F.A. from San Francisco State University.
Elana Nachman, Dykewomon’s birth name, published her first novel, Riverfinger Women, in 1974. Her second book, They Will Know Me By My Teeth, was published in 1976 under the pen name Elana Dykewoman, and was “at once an expression of her strong commitment to the lesbian community and a way to keep herself ‘honest,’ because anyone reading the book would know the author was a lesbian.”