Lavinia Kumar

Lavinia Kumar is currently focusing on women's accomplishments. Two poetry books are “No Longer Silent: the Silk and Iron of Women Scientists” (those well-known and those less so, across eras and countries), and a shorter one, “Hear Ye, Hear Ye: Women, Women: Soldiers, Spies of Revolutionary and Civil Wars,” of brave and imaginative determined women.

Two books in prose are short biographies, with rich research references. They are, first, "Women Botanists Born in the 1700s" — a book of 37 botanists key to the beginning of modern botany. And, second, "Spirited American Women: Early Writers, Artists, & Activists" of near 100 remarkable American women writers, poets, publishers, artists, abolitionists, early suffragettes, and activists, whose work was primarily from before Independence to before the Civil War.

Additional full-length poetry books are "The Celtic Fisherman’s Wife," 2017, an arc of seasonal activities during Druid times; and "The Skin and Under" (Word Tech, 2015), descriptions of multiple early medical and healing methods across continents.

Poetry chapbooks (short books) are "Let There be Color" (Lives You Touch Publications, 2016); "Rivers of Saris" (Main Street Rag, 2013); and "Beauty. Salon. Art." (Desert Willow Press, 2019).

Lavinia Kumar has an EdD in science education, and degrees in Chemistry (BA, cum laude) and Biology (MA), and was long involved in science and technology education. She has taught students from middle school up through medical school, as well as faculty and administrators.