Willa Cather’s My Ántonia: An Unusually Beautiful Read
I thoroughly enjoyed my recent reading of Willa Cather’s 1918 novel My Ántonia. There is something...
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Category: Nasty Women Writers
Cathy Park Hong (Korean American Woman Writer b.1976): Writing the Language of Change
Cathy Park Hong’s poetry is powerfully unique. In a reading I watched on YouTube, part of The Loft...
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Happy 100th Birthday to Betty Friedan!
On February 4, 2021, Betty Friedan would have turned 100 years old. Although she passed away 15...
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Holding Space for the Past and the Future: Indigenous Woman Writer Velma Wallis and the Stories of the Gwich’in People of Alaska
Velma Wallis’ books take the reader directly and swiftly into another world, a land of ice and...
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Writing at its Best: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw, a Woman Writer at Her Best
This book was recommended to me by Amazon. That’s right. It popped up on my kindle as, “you may be...
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Matilda Joslyn Gage: In Her Name, American Woman Writer and Activist (1826-1898)
A few weeks back, I came upon a term I had not heard before, the ‘Matilda Effect’. It’s defined...
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Being Poor While Female in 19th Century Woman Writer Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853)
Nearly eighty years after the publication of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Villette, Virginia Woolf...
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Julia Alvarez, Minerva Mirabel and the Embeddedness of Women’s Stories, Identities and Women Writers
My sister, Maria and I began #NastyWomenWriters to amplify the voices of #nastywomen from the past...
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Memorials to the Victims of the Middle Passage: Listening to Woman Writer Toni Morrison
In several interviews after the publication of her 1987 novel, Beloved, Toni Morrison laments the...
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