Editing Catherine Yronwode (section)

===Early writing===
Yronwode began writing while in her teens, contributing to [[science fiction fanzine]]s during the 1960s. She was a member of the Bay Area Astrologers Group, co-writing its weekly astrology column for an underground newspaper, ''[[San Francisco Express Times]]''. She produced record reviews on a freelance basis for the nascent ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine, and short articles on [[low-tech]] living for the ''[[Whole Earth Catalog]]'' and ''Country Women'' magazine. While in jail for growing marijuana, she wrote about her experiences ("Letters from Jail") for the ''[[Spokane Natural]]'' an [[underground press|underground newspaper]]. With her mother Liselotte Glozer, Catherine co-wrote and hand-lettered the faux-medieval [[cookbook]], ''My Lady's Closet Opened and the Secret of Baking Revealed'' by Two Gentlewomen (Glozer's Booksellers, 1969).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bibliomania.ws/shop/bibliomania/author/GLOZER%2C%20L%5Biselotte%5D%20and%20Catherine%20Manfredi.html?id=RkDC2qri |title=Search Results for GLOZER, L&#91;iselotte&#93; and Catherine Manfredi - Bibliomania - Carefully packing & shipping books worldwide for forty years |work=bibliomania.ws |year=2015 |access-date=17 October 2015 |archive-date=January 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110110030/http://www.bibliomania.ws/shop/bibliomania/author/GLOZER%2C%20L%5Biselotte%5D%20and%20Catherine%20Manfredi.html?id=RkDC2qri |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Describing herself as "one of those girls who took a look around at what the boys were doing", she quickly became an avid reader of [[Marvel Comics]]' [[Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] material, beginning with ''[[Fantastic Four (comic book)|Fantastic Four]]'' and ''[[The Amazing Spider-Man]]''. ''[[Doctor Strange (comic book)|Doctor Strange]]'' soon became her favourite, and when the initial series was cancelled in 1969 she gave up reading comics for several years.<ref name=AH141CY/> The same year, she and her then-partner Peter Paskin created the joint name "Yronwode" and all of her subsequent work has been published under that surname.<ref name="wicker"/> She generally styles her name in lower case, as "catherine yronwode."<ref name="yronwode.com" /> or even "cat [[Circled plus (disambiguation)|⊕]] yronwode" (pronounced 'iron-wood').<ref name=AH141CY>{{cite magazine|date=May 15, 1988|title=Cat Yronwode - Editor in Chief|author=[[Heidi MacDonald]]|magazine=[[Amazing Heroes]]|publisher=[[Fantagraphics Books]]|number=141}}</ref>