Grief and hope. Two words that aren’t used together often. Yet, through stories of nature and nurture, of reckoning and coming to terms, Charlotte Hamrick, Kim Steutermann Rogers, Ronita Chattopadhyay, Kristina Tabor, and Janet Murie powerfully weave the seemingly incongruent into deeply moving and incredibly inspiring tapestries of meaning.
Essays
NO OFFENSE: A Memoir In Essays
When Jackie “came out” in 2014, right as the Trump era was revving up, she began paying closer attention to the questions, uncomfortable reactions, and pointed assumptions about sexuality and gender she was witnessing and now experiencing.
High Priestess of the Apocalypse
High Priestess of the Apocalypse is a lyrical exploration of disobedience, grief, and healing (often simultaneously). This is a memoir that reckons with climate grief, the impulse to fight for what we love, and how to turn dread into action.
These Strange Bodies
These Strange Bodies is an intimate account of two tumultuous years and a clarifying dissection of how the female body exists in public and social spaces that are rooted in gendered and sexual violence.
Awakenings
What happens when 49 authors sit down to craft their experiences of living in a body? Magic! Curated by Diane Gottlieb, with a foreword by Gayle Brandeis, Awakenings: Stories of Bodies & Consciousness is truly a magical anthology of short essays, filled with trauma and triumph; pleasures and pain; challenges, resilience, and growth.
It Came From Beneath the Ink!
Step into the world of R.L. Stine as seen through the eyes of 14 writers. This anthology includes frightening fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction filled with all the nostalgia and childhood memories that go bump in the night.
Little Astronaut
Little Astronaut is a literary kaleidoscope blending the cerebral and emotional, and humor with darkness. These essays dig into the tiny, intimate moments that stitch us together: awaiting sunrise on Christmas mornings with a brother, the unexpected grief of finding a wounded bird, and the meaning of objects passed between sisters.
