Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman
Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman Scribner, 2015 ISBN: 978-1476786568 237 p.p. Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Almost Famous Women is a collection of short stories that focus on amazing women, […]
Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman Scribner, 2015 ISBN: 978-1476786568 237 p.p. Megan Mayhew Bergman’s Almost Famous Women is a collection of short stories that focus on amazing women, […]
The Greenhouse by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet Bull City Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1424318025 The Greenhouse is a chapbook of new motherhood. Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet explores what it means to grapple with […]
Mary Biddinger is the author of the poetry collections Prairie Fever, Saint Monica, O Holy Insurgency, and A Sunny Place with Adequate Water. She is also co-editor of The Monkey […]
Portland-based poets Melissa Reeser Poulin and Jill McKenna Reed are co-editors of Winged. Poulin conceived of Winged after the loss of over 50,000 bumble bees due to pesticide usage in Wilsonville, Oregon in June 2013. […]
Winged: New Writing on Bees Edited by Melissa Reeser Poulin & Jill McKenna Reed Poulin Publishing, 2014 ISBN: 978-0692274002 128 p.p. Winged: New Writing on Bees reminds us of the […]
On Immunity: An Inoculation Eula Biss Graywolf Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1555976897 205 p.p. Eula Biss’s On Immunity is a book-length essay broken into short chapters. The writing in this book […]
This Is Not a Sky Jessica Piazza Black Lawrence Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1625579171 26 p.p. Jessica Piazza’s chapbook of ekphrastic poetry takes its title from René Magritte’s modernist painting, “The Treachery of […]
A Sunny Place with Adequate Water by Mary Biddinger Black Lawrence Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1625579089 81 p.p. In songwriting, a verse can be described as either stable or unstable. A […]
Sara Eliza Johnson’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a variety of places, including Best New Poets 2009, New England Review, and Boston Review. She is the recipient of […]
Looking ahead: If you want to invest in your own writing, while supporting a woman writer this year, here are three online workshops led by women that we’re excited about this […]
Bone Map by Sara Eliza Johnson Milkweed Editions, 2014 ISBN: 978-1571314697 60 p.p. A map can be defined as “a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing […]
Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls by Erika Meitner Anhinga Press, 2011 ISBN: 978-1934695234 98 p.p. Erika Meitner’s collection Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls opens with an epigraph from “Song of […]
Erika Meitner was born and raised in Queens and Long Island, New York. She attended Dartmouth College (for an AB in Creative Writing in 1996), Hebrew University on a Reynolds […]
Mad Honey Symposium by Sally Wen Mao Alice James Books, 2014 ISBN: 978-1938584060 128 p.p. Sally Wen Mao’s Mad Honey Symposium is a collection of poems exploring obsession, honey, flowers, bees, […]
Tarfia Faizullah is the author of Seam (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), winner of the 2012 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry’s First Book Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, The […]
Emily Rosko is the author of two poetry collections: Prop Rockery, awarded the 2011 University of Akron Poetry Prize and Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and the […]
Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky Penguin Books, 2009 ISBN 978-0143118206 144 p.p. Separated into sections by ocean, Judith Schalansky’s atlas describes 50 islands from Easter Island in the […]
Helen Vitoria is a poet and an artist living in Pennsylvania. Her poems and photographs appear widely online and in print. She is the author of nine poetry chapbooks, a […]
In 2013, Laura McCullough had four books published, Rigger Death & Hoist Another (poems, Black Lawrence Press), Ripple & Snap (micro-fiction/hybrid, ELP Press), The Smashing House (a short fiction chapbook, […]
Corn Exchange Helen Vitoria Wild Chestnut Press November, 2013 ISBN 978-1493725304 Helen Vitoria’s full-length collection of poetry creates a landscape of mountains, mines, and pear trees. With our speaker, we […]
The Hypothetical Girl Elizabeth Cohen Other Press, 2012 ISBN 978-159051582-2 256 p.p. “For some time now, Emily has been vanishing.” Elizabeth Cohen’s collection of fifteen short stories revolve around the […]
Elizabeth Cohen is an Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Plattsburgh, where she serves as the fiction editor for the Saranac Review. Her memoir, The Family on Beartown Road, was a […]
Vulgar Remedies Anna Journey Louisiana State University Press, August 2013 ISBN: 978-0-8071-5219-5 78 p.p. The poems in Anna Journey’s second collection continue a dialogue with her first book, If Birds Should […]
Allison Seay’s collection To See the Queen (Persea Books) is the winner of the 2012 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry. Allison earned a BA in English at Mary […]
The Faraway Nearby Rebecca Solnit ISBN 978-0-670-0259-1 Viking, Published by Penguin Group 2013, 259 p.p. When the near capsized like a ship, the far swept me up: Rebecca Solnit’s The […]
Margaret Atwood’s collection Two-Headed Poems explores the nature of several dualities. Each poem has two minds of is its own and is told by a speaker who feels two contradictory […]
Liz Scheid received her MFA (poetry) from California State University, Fresno in 2008. Her first book, The Shape of Blue, won The Lit Pub’s first annual prose contest and is out […]
Hadara Bar-Nadav is the author of Lullaby (with Exit Sign), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin, Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize from New Issues; […]
The Girls of Peculiar Catherine Pierce Saturnalia Books, 2012 ISBN: 978-0-9833686-2-5l 78 p.p. This is the Future. If You Were Here You’d Know That: On Catherine Pierce’s The Girls of Peculiar […]
Patricia Smith has been called “a testament to the power of words to change lives.” She is the author of five books of poetry, including Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (2012), which won […]
Kelly Davio’s Burn This House is a book of music and silence, of transparency and borders. These poems simultaneously build a house as they bury it in its own ashes. […]