Andrea Juno

American writer, editor, publisher and media producer (b. Sep 1955/or 1956); based in Northampton, Massachusetts. Andrea Juno is best known as co-founder of RE/Search Publications with V. Vale, which she occasionally edited between 1980 and 1994, and later Juno Books (1994–2006). She contributed to over 30 critically-acclaimed publications. Juno wrote more than a dozen books based on her interviews with William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Art Spiegelman, Dr. Timothy Leary, Chrissie Hynde, Diamanda Galás, Annie Sprinkle, and other renowned artists. She was Kirsten Borchardt's translator and co-author. Andrea Juno received her Master's degree in Media Studies from The New School, NYC in 2004 and earned a Film and Video Editing Certificate from New York University in 2008. She co-edited RE/Search No. 6/7: Industrial Culture Handbook (1983), focused on industrial music and performance art and featuring interviews and editorials on Throbbing Gristle, Mark Pauline, Cabaret Voltaire, NON, Sordide Sentimental, SPK, Z'EV, Johanna Went and Naut Humon. In 1989, Juno published one of her most acclaimed books, Modern Primitives, co-authored with Vale and dedicated to body modification. It featured essays and conversations with Fakir Musafar, Anton LaVey, Leo Zulueta, Sheree Rose, Vyvyn Lazonga, Monte Cazazza, Henk Schiffmacher a.k.a. Henky Penky, Greg Kulz and Genesis and Paula P-Orridge. (Coinciding with the book's release, Sheree Rose and Bob Flanagan staged one of their first joint performances, "Nailed.")