she worked at the crossing press, an independent publisher, where she edited the feminist series for five years, publishing such books as audre lorde's "sister outsider", marilyn frye's "the politics of reality", and a reissue of pat parker's "movement in black". in the fall of 1984, bereano left crossing press and started firebrand books; by the spring of 1985 she was issuing her first list: pat parker's "jonestown and other madness", "mohawk trail" by beth brant, and "moll cutpurse, her true history" by ellen galford.