Her first novel, "The Fifth Sacred Thing", won the Lambda Award for best Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction in 1994. Her book "Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery" won the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for non-fiction in 1988. Her essays are reprinted across the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Starhawk has authored 10 books, which have have been translated into over 11 languages. She is internationally known as a trainer in nonviolence and direct action, and as an activist within the Peace Movement, Women's Movement, Environmental Movement, and Anti-Globalization Movement. Starhawk lives in San Francisco, where she works with Reclaiming, a tradition of Witchcraft that she co-founded in the late 1970s. In 1973, while she was a film student at UCLA, Starhawk won the Samuel Goldwyn Award for her novel, "A Weight of Gold", a story about Venice, California, where she then lived. Both her parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. Starhawk was born as Miriam Simos in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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