The Girlfriend Mom is the 2020 Winner of SCN’s Gilda Award Dani Alpert calls herself an accidental writer. “Sure, I wrote overwrought and melodramatic poems in high school, but I never […]
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An Interview with Jennifer Smith Turner, Author of Child Bride
Child Bride is the 2020 winner of SCN’s Sarton Award for historical fiction. Jennifer Smith Turner knows who she is and where she came from. “…my great-grandfather was a […]
Read MoreMeet Deborah Turner, Author of Sweating It Out
Smallwood: What is your educational background? Turner: I earned successive degrees from the Universities of California, Berkeley, Michigan, and then Washington, respectively. I majored in English and minored in Native […]
Read MoreMeet Denise David, author of Against Forgetting: War, Love, and After War
Denise David is a teacher, writer, scholar, wife, mother, and grandmother, but before any of that she was born the daughter of a British war bride, and that has made […]
Read MoreMeet Candice Shy Hooper
Candice Hooper is a historian, writer, and member of advisory boards for President Lincoln’s Cottage in D.C. and the Ulysses S. and Julia D. Grant Historical Home in Detroit. Her […]
Read MoreMeet Charlene Ball
A historian’s low opinion of early feminist poet Emilia Bassano Lanyer, who may have been the dark lady of Shakespeare’s sonnets, prompted Charlene Ball to research and write about the […]
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