Celeste Newbrough

Celeste Newbrough (born 1939 in New Orleans) is an American novelist, essayist, poet, and painter. She is the daughter of Norita Massicot Newbrough, a Southern representation painter and lives in Berkeley, California and in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Newbrough’s work includes a novel, The Zanscripts, and a book of poems, Pagan Psalms, both published by Onecraft in Berkeley. Poems from Pagan Psalms have been translated into European anthologies and used for both liturgical readings and rituals. The San Francisco Bay Times described the book as “tribal and exalted" and it was cited in by Carolyn Merchant as a source work in environmental spirituality.

The Zanscripts has been collected in the Shields Library of the University of California, Davis and elsewhere. Here poems and artwork have been anthologized in Woman Visions, Tit; An Anthology of New England Women’s Art and Writing, The Carquinez Review, The Harrington Literary Quarterly, Broadway West Press Picks: The Best of the Millennium, Her, Exit-76, and The Wilderness Sampler.

Newbrough was featured poet at the 1990 Conference on Ecofeminism held at the University of California in Berkeley. She has also read at other conferences and events in San Francisco, Hanover, New Orleans, San Antonio, Philadelphia, and Seattle.

Her nonfiction works have been published, quoted, and cited in numerous publications, including the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women, International Archives of the Second Wave, Matrix, Distaff, the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and San Francisco Bay Times.