Contact:

Please note:

This is only a contact address for the owner of this website, www.themisathena.info – not for any of the authors and artists featured here.

The established way of contacting writers is through their publishing houses; performing artists (musicians, directors, actors etc.) can usually be reached through their agents or occasionally through their record/film production companies. Specific contact addresses are provided on most authors's and artists' official websites, to the extent such sites exist (for reference, see the "For further information consult" section of the respective author, artist and movie pages on my site). A general list of links to the websites of major media companies – book publishers as well as record labels and film studios – can be found here; to the extent that I am aware of film production companies owned by specific actors or directors, links to those companies' websites are usually likewise included in the "For further information consult" sections at the bottom of the movie pages featuring the artists in question.

In addition, let me repeat my request from this site's index and FAQ pages only to use the above email address if you have a question or comment not already addressed on the FAQ page. I currently only have limited time to respond to emails; so you'd be doing neither yourself nor other visitors a favor otherwise. Thanks for understanding!

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world. Sharon Maas: Of Marriageable Age.

Through our maps, we willingly become a part of their boundaries. If our home is included, we feel pride, perhaps familiarity, but always a sense that this is ours. If it is not, we accept our roles as outsiders, though we may be of the same mind and culture. In this way, maps can be dangerous and powerful tools. Debbie Lee Wesselmann: Trutor and the Balloonist.

I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. ... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps. Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient.

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me. Hugo Hamilton: The Speckled People.