Don­na Minkowitz was a colum­nist for the Vil­lage Voice for eight years, and her writ­ing has also appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Salon, The Nation, and Ms. Her first book, Fero­cious Romance, won a Lam­mie for its por­tray­al of the traits Minkowitz found she had in com­mon with the Chris­t­ian right, despite fierce­ly oppos­ing them politically.