# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elise-matthesen
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:00:54.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elise-matthesen"
name: "Elise Matthesen"
slug: "elise-matthesen"
description: "Elise Matthesen is an American essayist, journalist, poet, and fiction writer, an award-winning maker of art jewelry, and a longtime bisexual rights activist. For 13 years, she was the companion of the late John M. Ford, until his death in September 2006. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is a member of the First Universalist Church there."
tagline: "Writer, journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elise_Matthesen_2008_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.02
  momentum:             8.275862068965516
  historical:           4.404608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.lioness.net/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "إليز ماثيسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%AB%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "اليس ماتثيسين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A5%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A8"
    title: "এলিস ম্যাথেসেন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elise_Matthesen"
    title: "Elise Matthesen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AA%DA%BE%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%86"
    title: "ایلیس میتھیسن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5361675"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump