Halfway From Home is a lyrical and precise cartography of what it means to belong—to a place, to poverty, to a family where abundance never visits, to a life shaped […]
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Author: Sarah Fawn Montgomery
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Memoir and Autobiography
Mother of My Invention
Author: Janice Airhart
“My mother went missing before I was born.” With that simple statement, author Janice Airhart introduces her mother, Barbara Jean Henke, as the subject of her book, Mother of My […]
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Feminist Therapist
Author: Jessica Heriot
Is America still a patriarchy? Pretty much, though we’re conditioned to think otherwise. What are truths, what is perception, and how did Jessica Heriot rise above that conditioning when she […]
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Burning Sage: Collected Writings on Unconventional Motherhood, Unconventional Teacherhood, and Unconditional Love
Author: Jennifer Rieger
Like most women, Jennifer Rieger confronts life’s unexpected events with apprehension. As a nineteen-year-old college student she becomes pregnant, disrupting her plans for a writing career. She falls in love […]
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On the Ledge: A Memoir
Author: Amy Turner
On the Ledge is a debut memoir from Amy Turner, a former practicing attorney and seventh-grade social studies teacher. Its prologue prepares the reader for the memoir’s impetus—in 1957, her […]
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Word for Word: A Writer’s Life
Author: Laurie Lisle
I so enjoyed Word for Word: A Writer’s Life by Laurie Lisle. I highlighted, wrote in the margins and tabbed pages. Being a writer is so intertwined with being who […]
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