For Women’s History Month, observed annually during the month of March, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend reading in celebration.
Nonfiction, Drama & Cross-Genre Works
The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones
Rose Metal Press | 2023
ISBN: 9781941628317
In this debut memoir, Acevedo-Quiñones “pieces together the story of her family and Puerto Rico using a captivating combination of historical facts, poems, maps, overheard conversations, and flash essays.”
Exit the Body by Heather Bartel
Split/Lip Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781952897375
This essay collection is a “meditation on the mind and its place within the body: what escapes, what ruptures, what is created, what echoes, and where we find ourselves on the other side.”
bull-jean & dem/dey back by Sharon Bridgforth
53rd State Press | 2022
ISBN: 9781737025566
According to Donnetta Lavinia Grays, Bridgforth’s work “challenges us to consider if we’ve loved radically enough to become those loving ancestors we seek.”
History Is Embarrassing by Karen Chase
CavanKerry Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781960327024
Chase’s essay collection “weaves together threads from one single life—a girl suffering from polio, a poet, a Jewish woman, a writer, and a painter.”
The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn
Rose Metal Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781941628331
This memoir about progressive vision loss “shapeshifts between lyric essay and prose poetry and traverses the divides between lived experience, history, and scientific knowledge.”
Ann, Fran, and Mary Ann by Erin Courtney
53rd State Press | 2020
ISBN: 9781732545205
Courtney’s book is a “deeply reflective, reflecting, refracting play about trauma, God, patterns, and the way they live in our bodies, our minds, and acts of love.”
LittlePuss Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781736716861
In this book, Cross “excavates a fallen world of social media’s political promises, from Twitter epidemiology, to handwringing over TikTok, to the ersatz hopes of new platforms like Bluesky.”
The Word Pretty by Elisa Gabbert
Black Ocean | 2018
ISBN: 9781939568267
In this collection, Gabbert “brings together her unique humor and observational intelligence to create a roving and curious series of lyrical essays, which combine elements of criticism, meditation, and personal essay.”
LittlePuss Press | 2022
ISBN: 9781736716823
According to NPR, this memoir “uses humor and vivid storytelling to talk not only about abuse and trauma, but also joy and survival.”
Five Conversations About Peter Sellers by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | 2023
ISBN: 9781680033038
This essay “begins as an exploration of the author’s burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing production of the spy spoof, Casino Royale, in the late 60s.”
Hell Gate Bridge by Barrie Miskin
Woodhall Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781960456021
Miskin’s memoir “brings rare mental illnesses into the light, seeks to heal the fractures in our broken maternal and mental healthcare system, and shows how we can overcome the impossible when we fight to save the ones we love.”
A Full Moon of Women by Ursule Molinaro
McPherson & Company | 1993
ISBN: 0929701321
This book of short biographies is a “powerful, unsettling vision of heroines whose rebellious daring shaped the meaning of the female experience throughout history.”
A Public Space Books | 2024
ISBN: 9798985976922
This memoir “asks what it means to write with full honesty about one’s life–to explore who we were, and how our choices shape and allow who we become.”
Trail Magic by JoDean Nicolette
Choeofpleirn Press | 2024
ISBN: 9798990405820
In her memoir, Nicolette “takes readers on a decade-long journey north along the Appalachian Trail, beginning just after she completed her residency as a physician.”
The Witch of Eye by Kathryn Nuernberger
Sarabande Books | 2021
ISBN: 9781946448705
This collection of historical and personal essays “investigates the horrors inflicted on so-called ‘witches’ of the past.”
Blackwater Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781963614046
Ostrov’s memoir “is about the unfolding of unmet expectations, of shattered childhood dreams, of tenderness found unexpectedly.”
Sinister Wisdom | 2024
ISBN: 9781944981761
In this memoir, Pratt “explores the fluidity, capaciousness, unpredictability, malleability, and shifting everyday terrains of sex and gender.”
Limited Engagement by Jacquelyn Shah
Choeofpleirn Press | 2023
ISBN: 9798987785256
In this memoir, Shah shows “how her feminist consciousness developed, despite growing up in a dysfunctional family, to influence her writing, her living, her perspective on others, and her eventual formation of WAVE, Women Against Violence Everywhere.”
Fonograf Editions | 2020
This cross-genre poetry collection “continues the author’s virtuosic exploration of identity, selfhood and refusal–of stasis, of forgetting, of falsity.”
The Night Garden: of My Mother by Sandra Tyler
Pierian Springs Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781953136770
This memoir “candidly explores what it means for a daughter to have her focus fractured by conflicting responsibilities while still seeking, above all else, her mother’s approval, protection and love.”
McPherson & Company | 2015
ISBN: 9781620540138
Edited by Margaret McMullan, this anthology is a “collection of 25 personal essays by women writers writing about their fathers.”
Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World
Woodhall Press | 2022
ISBN: 9781949116694
Edited by Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido, this anthology “celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own.”
Fiction
Golden Threads by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
Ayin Press | 2025
ISBN: 9781961814219
This book for middle-grade readers “will take people of all ages on a journey into the multi-faith world of Morocco’s craftspeople, inspiring generative conversations about art, labor, community, and technology for years to come.”
The Silver Baron’s Wife by Donna Baier Stein
Serving House Books | 2016
ISBN: 9780997101065
This historical novel “traces the rags-to-riches-to-rags life of Colorado’s Baby Doe Tabor (Lizzie).”
City of Dancing Gargoyles by Tara Campbell
Santa Fe Writers Project | 2024
ISBN: 9781951631390
“Water and safety are elusive” in this book of speculative climate fiction, “where history books bleed, dragons kiss, and gun-toting trees keep their own kind of peace.”
Near Strangers by Marian Crotty
Autumn House Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781637681008
This short fiction collection “centers on resilient female protagonists and offers a view into queer life and love outside of its major coastal cities.”
The Parted Earth by Anjali Enjeti
Hub City Press | 2022
ISBN: 9781938235962
This debut novel is a “heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of India on the lives of three generations of women.”
How We Know Our Time Travelers by Anita Felicelli
WTAW Press | 2024
ISBN: 9798987719770
This book of short stories is a “dark, intellectual, and surreal collection inspired by the uncertainty of time that explores themes of technology, climate change, reality, love and loss.”
I Have Not Considered Consequences: Short Stories by Sherrie Flick
Autumn House Press | 2025
ISBN: 9781637681046
This flash fiction collection “delves into the complexities of grief, desire, and a peculiar intersection between humans and bears.”
Marisolandia by Michelle Cruz Gonzales
WTAW Press | 2025
ISBN: 9798987719718
In this speculative novel, “The new Republic of California is forcing Marisol, a Mexicana woman, to marry a white man to create a homogenous race in the new nation.”
Beautiful Dreamers by Minrose Gwin
Hub City Press | 2024
ISBN: 9798885740364
This novel is “a story of a precocious teen and her mother, their gay best friend, and the con man who unravels their family.”
Ghosts of America: A Great American Novel by Caroline Hagood
Hanging Loose Press | 2021
ISBN: 9781934909713
In this novel, “a sexist male novelist undergoes a peculiar transformation after being haunted by the ghosts of the women he has miswritten: Jackie Kennedy and Valerie Solanas.”
The Moonstone Covenant by Jill Hammer
Ayin Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781961814158
This fantasy novel follows “the story of four women who set out to uncover the secret origins of an intricate, magical city—and to change its fate.”
The Confines by Anu Kandikuppa
Veliz Books | 2025
ISBN: 9781949776188
The short stories in this debut collection “deliver us into the cultural expectations, hierarchies, and taboos that define and limit our lives, especially the lives of women.”
The Burning Heart of the World by Nancy Kricorian
Red Hen Press | 2025
ISBN: 9781636281933
“Leavened with humor and imbued with the timelessness of a folktale,” this novel is a “sweeping saga that takes readers on an epic journey from the mountains of Cilicia to contemporary New York City.”
Your Actual Life May Vary by Linda Lenhoff
Santa Fe Writers Project | 2025
ISBN: 9781951631451
According to Elizabeth Gonzalez James, this novel is “all heart, a story of finding solace and connection in a world that often seems designed for alienation.”
Flight of the Wild Swan by Melissa Pritchard
Bellevue Literary Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781954276215
This novel “tells the story of Florence Nightingale, a brilliant, trailblazing woman whose humanity has been obscured beneath the iconic weight of legend.”
Burying Norma Jeane by Leah Rogin
Blackwater Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781963614022
In this novel, “Miriam Renata is shaken by the news that Hugh Hefner, the lecherous founder of Playboy, has been recently entombed next to Marilyn Monroe nearly sixty years after her death.”
Wave Books | 2023
ISBN: 9781950268849
In this collection, Ruefle “generously invites us to query ourselves as readers and thinkers in a world that will eventually endure without us.”
Country of Under by Brooke Shaffner
Split/Lip Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781952897412
According to Helen Benedict, Country of Under is “a novel about the pain and wonder of being between identities. Between male and female. Citizen and immigrant. Fulfilled and empty.”
There’s Nothing Left for You Here by Allegra Solomon
Four Way Books | 2025
ISBN: 9781961897441
The stories in this collection are “ranging in subject but joined by their keen attention to the lives of contemporary young women of color.”
Wizard’s Tower Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781913892845
Edited by Joanne Hall and Roz Clarke, this short fiction anthology features a “variety of science fiction and fantasy stories by top women writers,” including Danie Ware, Gaie Sebold, Dolly Garland, and more.
Poetry
Fonograf Editions | 2016
This poetry record “interrogates the difference between texture and tactile; thing unspoken versus thing unseen.”
Wave House by Elizabeth Arnold
Flood Editions | 2023
ISBN: 9798985787412
According to Tom Pickard, the poems in this collection “have the searching voice of an astronaut trying to find the source of itself on a rotating globe, high on the octane of tongues.”
Naming a Hurricane by Madeline Artenberg
Pink Trees Press | 2023
ISBN: 9781666400250
According to Thaddeus Rutkowski, Artenberg “engages in an honest, thoughtful, and, most important, artful exploration of herself and the people around her” in this poetry collection.
The Wishing Tomb by Amanda Auchter
Perugia Press | 2012
ISBN: 9780979458255
This poetry collection centered on New Orleans is a “love letter to a city that has been defined by its travails and triumphs.”
The Punishments Must Be a School by Emily August
The Word Works | 2023
ISBN: 9781944585648
This debut poetry collection “confronts race, power, violence, and how we shape one another, daring us to contemplate what it could mean to ‘put the fear down.’”
The Mouth is Also a Compass by Carrie Bennett
Barrow Street Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781962131049
The poems in this collection “explore our ethical duty to protect by subverting the traditional exploration narrative in which the explorer discovers/conquers/exploits with a feminist ecopoetic perspective that emphasizes consciousness and care.”
Rare Wondrous Things by Alyse Bensel
Green Writers Press | 2020
ISBN: 9781732743403
Based on the life of Maria Sibylla Merian, this poetry collection “investigates the history of this German artist and naturalist who made groundbreaking discoveries in entomology.”
Birds, LLC | 2018
ISBN: 9780991429882
This poetry collection “excavates from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, through the process of erasure, an original narrative of violence, sexual abuse, power dynamics, vengeance, and feminist rage, and wrestles with the complexities of gender, transition, and monsterhood.”
Fernwood Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781594981258
In this poetry collection, Bornman “draws upon Biblical imagery—water and fire, bleeding and cleansing, birth and crucifixion—to audaciously poeticize her own experience as a mother.”
Improvise in the Amen Corner by Larnell Custis Butler
Passager | 2007
ISBN: 9780963138514
This collection of poetry and visual art is a “stunning collection of 48 portraits and poems that testify to African American lives of deep vexation and amazing grace.”
Red Hen Press | 2025
ISBN: 9781636282633
The poems in this collection “run through the four phases of Limerence, the state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person: Infatuation, Crystallization, Deterioration, and Ecstatic Release.”
Dysfunction: A Play on Words in the Familiar by Pauline Findlay
Pink Trees Press | 2022
ISBN: 9781513695648
According to Thomas Pryor, Findlay “crashes through her palatable fear to examine the prism of human experience, especially as a woman in all her various roles” in this poetry collection.
The Farewell Light by Nidia Hernández
Translated from the Spanish by Rowena Hill
Arrowsmith Press | 2024
ISBN: 9798987924167
This debut poetry collection “leaps effortlessly between the natural world and meditations on culture, family, language, and longing.”
The Village of New Ghosts by Winifred Hughes
Passager | 2024
ISBN: 9781735514888
According to EJ Colen, this poetry collection creates a “linguistic and emotional landscape of give and take, of push and pull, each step forward a constant realignment of understanding of nature and history, of temporality itself.”
Making Water by Laura Jaramillo
Futurepoem | 2022
ISBN: 9781733038454
According to Wendy Trevino, Jaramillo’s poetry collection “unpacks a lovely liquid landscape shot through with the promise of violence.”
Red Kite, Blue Sky by Madeleine May Kunin
Green Writers Press | 2021
ISBN: 9781950584987
According to Major Jackson, “an enthralling light emanates from the center of these poems that reveal a life lived fully in love, laughter, joy and sorrows overcome.”
Tiny Extravaganzas by Diane Mehta
Arrowsmith Press | 2023
ISBN: 9798987924112
The poems in this collection are “miniaturist examinations of art, aging, literature, grief, parenting, the sublime, labor, and faith.”
Under This Roof by Theresa Monteiro
Fernwood Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781594981449
This debut poetry collection “offers the possibility of restoration, of making peace with grief, and of forging connection in a disrupted world.”
Black Ocean | 2024
ISBN: 9781939568762
In this poetry collection, Morrison “embraces the art of constraint, weaving her verse within the tight embrace of seven-syllable segments, punctuated by deliberate pauses.”
House Work by Cindy Juyoung Ok
Ugly Duckling Presse | 2023
Throughout this poetry collection, “housework, house, and work come to reflect architectural and emotional structures more and more variously.”
let the heart hold down the breakage or the caregiver’s log by Maureen Owen
Hanging Loose Press | 2022
ISBN: 9781934909720
According to Fanny Howe, this poetry collection “dwells in the struggle between death and dying.”
Ugly Duckling Presse | 2023
powell’s poetry collection has an “embodied feeling of black study, an illegible, unspeakable, and unreadable social aesthetic practice.”
History of Gone by Lynn Schmeidler
Veliz Books | 2018
ISBN: 9780996913478
This poetry collection is “inspired by the life and unsolved disappearance of Barbara Newhall Follett, a once-famous child prodigy writer of the early 20th century.”
Futurepoem | 2019
ISBN: 9781733038409
This poetry collection “follows the inherent strangeness of one’s consciousness as it observes and comes into contact with the physical world.”
Savage Pageant by Jessica Q. Stark
Birds, LLC | 2020
ISBN: 9780982617731
This poetry collection “recounts the history of the defunct zoo, Jungleland, which housed Hollywood’s show animals up until its closure in 1969.”
Perugia Press | 2011
ISBN: 9780979458248
According to Kathy Fagan, Stewart’s poetry “makes magic out of a mountain, out of a childhood lived in West Virginia and the relentless pillaging of that land by commercial interests—and never does she compromise her art with cliché or polemic.”
Bodies of Light by Susan Tekulve
Serving House Books | 2024
ISBN: 9781947175617
According to Denise Duhamel, Tekulve “honors the bodies of her beloved dead and the magic of her garden” in this poetry collection.
Selena Didn’t Know Spanish Either by Marisa Tirado
TRP: The University Press of SHSU | 2022
ISBN: 9781680032659
This debut poetry collection “seeks Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla as a means of reconnecting to the speaker’s cultural identity.”
The Word Works | 2024
ISBN: 9781944585747
According to Publishers Weekly, this poetry collection “blends rage and desire with the perseverance required to endure American corruption and sexism.”
She, Self-Winding by Luu Dieu Van
Ugly Duckling Presse | 2022
This poetry collection “explores, through skewed narrative and shrewd linguistic play, the trajectory of an immigrant girl from a remote village who endures the aftermath of a civil war as she makes her escape by boat.”
Of Being Dispersed by Simone White
Futurepoem | 2016
ISBN: 9780996002547
According to Erica Hunt, this poetry collection is “written with baroque skepticism, feminist vision and attention to the complications of a Black yet to be storyed any/where.”
Four Way Books | 2024
ISBN: 9781961897168
In this poetry collection, Williams “writes equally riotous and vulnerable poems, penning a love letter to trans people and their audacity to exist in a world that constantly endangers them structurally and individually.”
CavanKerry Press | 2024
ISBN: 9781960327048
The poems in this debut collection “reveal how Black womxn and girls carve out, create, and pass along that lightness in their daily lives.”
Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse
Lost Horse Press | 2017
ISBN: 9780998196336
Edited by Grace Bauer and Julie Kane, this poetry collection “speaks not just to the current political climate and the man who is responsible for its title, but to the stereotypes and expectations women have faced dating back to Eve.”
Raising Lily Ledbetter: Women Poets Occupy the Workspace
Lost Horse Press | 2015
ISBN: 9780991146598
According to Carolyn Forché, this poetry anthology edited by Carolyne Wright, M. L. Lyons, and Eugenia Toledo “gathers the lyric art of working women, writing from the depths of at least sixty-two occupations.”
Lit Mags
“Kind of Monster” by Ciara Alfaro
Southeast Review | 2023
This essay begins, “As girls, it started with Selena, Malinche, and La Llorona. Stories of bullets and blood, heartbreak hauntings that helped us understand our identity.”
“Unraveling a Woman: Study of Forced Structural Augmentation” by Sayuri Ayers
ANMLY | 2024
This poem begins, “In the field of cosmos-resource harvesting, guilt and shame continue to be valuable energy resources, fueling the machinery needed to degrade human society.”
“In Praise of Phonetics” by Lory Bedikian
SWWIM | 2024
This poem begins, “The great-great aunt plays dead / When he tries to pull the gold tooth…”
“Cleaning Girls” by Cassie Blair
Chestnut Review | 2025
This short story begins, “We were cleaning girls together at The Hideout Inn, a bed and breakfast and retreat center in the Ponderosa Pine Forest, twenty miles west of where I lived in Rock Creek.”
“The Woman with No Face” by K-Ming Chang
Adi Magazine | 2023
This short story begins, “Xiaocai says there’s a woman with no face who walks our city at night.”
Another Chicago Magazine | 2024
This short story begins, “I used to think that I could leave a thing behind by declaring it so and walking out, whether it was a job, a lover, a room, or a drug. But I was wrong.”
Review of Judith Barrington’s Virginia’s Apple: Collected Memoirs by Meg Daly
LIBER | 2024
This review begins, “There is a gorgeous moment in Judith Barrington’s new book where she helps Adrienne Rich into a hot tub.”
Tahoma Literary Review | 2024
This poem begins, “My mother picks bunches of collard greens. / Tearing the leaves away from their thick spines.”
“Humanoid Wanders Limanakia Beach” by Daphne DiFazio
ANMLY | 2022
This poem begins, “Like a siren programmed for play, I say yes to the men but leave them alive. My vocabulary of salt & stung iris makes me a / good girl.”
“Forbidden Fruit” by Shreya Fadia
phoebe | 2025
This short story begins, “They say that when you’re pregnant, fetal cells migrate through the placenta, embedding themselves into the interior fabric of you, the process a sort of colonization, the result a genetic chimera.”
“Democratic Vistas: An Empire Mounted on Liberty (Re/ride Whitman)” by Sherese Francis
Inverted Syntax | 2023
“Democratic Vistas: An Empire Mounted on Liberty (Re/ride Whitman),” featured here on Instagram, was published in Issue 3 of Inverted Syntax.
ANMLY | 2022
This poem begins, “So instead, a houseplant / arching a trellis of its own strong stems…”
“Basic Behavior: Mary Gaitskill Posts Her Drafts” by Hannah Gold
The Drift | 2023
This essay begins, “During the summer of 2022, a troubling suspicion began to take root in my mind.”
“Sexy Beasts” by francine j. harris
New England Review | 2024
This poem begins, “Such swirled posture. and forward gesture. bent / to serenade. a leaner, howl. a stooper, sultry.”
“Searching for the Northern Lights While My Wife Sleeps” by Luci Huhn
SWWIM | 2025
This poem begins, “The last time I saw them, I was in high school, / dancing in a wide-open field…”
Review of Joanna Russ’s “On Strike Against God” by Kathleen Hurlock
LIBER | 2024
This review begins, “Is heterosexuality a choice? A new edition of Joanna Russ’s 1980 novel On Strike Against God asks us to reckon with this and other questions posed by an earlier generation of feminists.”
Sinister Wisdom | 2025
Sinister Wisdom’s newest issue—featuring Cris Hernández, Kara Olson, Rona Magy, and more—“pays tributes to past and present lesbian and feminist icons.”
Wellspringwords | 2024
This literary anthology featuring Kenley Ellis, Denise Chin, Shel Zhou, and more explores the “patience required in crafting ourselves and the lives we consciously choose.”
Southeast Review | 2023
This short story begins, “It’s a bad idea, walking out into burnished summer fields with him, seeking horses to ride.”
“Revolutions in Time” by Elizabeth Lee
Bellevue Literary Review | 2023
This short story begins, “My mother looks so beautiful when she hasn’t yet birthed me.”
“Can the Sireniform Speak?: Devolving with The Little Mermaid” by Sophie Lewis
The Drift | 2023
This essay begins, “In the year that brought us the orca uprising and the disappearance of a submarine carrying tourists to the wreck of the Titanic, Disney’s live-action The Little Mermaid starred an African American woman.”
“Sometimes I Still Get Hungry” by Rachel Mallalieu
Chestnut Review | 2023
This poem begins, “When I was young, I learned / to stare at the ground / when entering a crowded room…”
Four Poems by Yessica Martinez
Another Chicago Magazine | 2024
The poem “Not a Pirate Visa, a Pirate’s Song” begins, “José de Espronceda says the sea / is his only country. / I say, what’s the whole sea, / without a mother, / to me?”
“Meringues and Memories” by Natalie Nee
Epistemic Literary | 2024
This short story begins, “‘Tell me what you think, Eloise,’ Grand-maman crooned. She cracked open the oven, an unusual sky blue color and top of the line model back when she and Papi built this villa many decades ago.”
Radar Poetry | 2024
The poem “In the Planned Parenthood Parking Lot, A Stranger’s Sign Says Life is Beautiful” begins, “On the drive to the clinic, I count the season’s passings: / owl fleeing woods at dawn, family dog, last of the apple’s / meager crop rotting in the crisper.”
“Tending the Garden” by Jessica Nirvana Ram
The Cincinnati Review | 2024
This poem begins, “My mother tells me my grandmother has begun to touch / herself.”
“Whose Form Is Delocalized” by Jessica Reed
Inverted Syntax | 2019
This poem begins, “Self is the structure that opposes, and does not strictly exist.”
L’Esprit Literary | 2024
This essay begins, “Hello? Hi Mom. You’re calling late. I got laid off today.”
“Grief is an Ocean” by EG Shields
Arkana | 2024
This illustrative narrative begins, “I think of my grief as an ocean…”
“My girlfriend threw up on every carnival ride we went on, without exception” by Katie Jean Shinkle
phoebe | 2025
This poem begins, “The lights of the carousel blink once twice in distress. / You are on main stage / dressed in all-black to blend in, to never be seen.”
“The Woman State” by Tracy K. Smith
Adi Magazine | 2019
This poem begins, “There are those who, predictably, hate the woman state. / Envy fevers the face. How they’re dying to taste the woman state.”
New England Review | 2024
This poem begins, “I’m depressed in Lancaster where my family doesn’t belong.”
“Feartility” by Kelly Grace Thomas
Tahoma Literary Review | 2024
This poem begins, “I bought it: / the basal thermo- / meter and ovulation…”
Towards a Visionary Poetics: A Female Gaze
Ayin Press | 2022
This online folio of poems and prose reflections by Alicia Ostriker, Zoe Tuck, Shoshana Olidort, and more “features literary work on the place(s) where women’s voices, poetics, and prophecy meet, shift the ground, and create something new.”
Sinister Wisdom | 2023
Issue 128 celebrates “writers and artists who trouble gender,” exploring questions like, “What perspectives do trans lives bring to the field of feminist thought and practice? What does it mean to hold a conversation about being trans? What does it mean to be a part of that conversation?”
“Blood/Shed” by Alanna Weissman
Bellevue Literary Review | 2021
This essay begins, “You are three weeks shy of your thirteenth birthday the first time it happens.”
The Cincinnati Review | 2025
This story begins, “In an evergreen forest thick with the smell of pine, I munched a granola bar and prepared to climb Oregon’s 5,325-foot-high McKenzie Pass.”
“history lesson” by Alexandria Valentine
Arkana | 2024
This poem begins, “i was doing the preamble to the constitution during that time you had to remember the preamble to the constitution before you could graduate from grammar school…”
Anodyne Magazine | 2024
Volume 4 of Anodyne Magazine—which publishes writing and visual art on personal health experiences by FLINTA writers—features Kresha Richman Warnock, Frances Cannon, Kimberly Gibson-Tran, and more.
Consequence Forum | 2018
This volume “focuses on the enormous contributions made by those women who write and create art in response to war” and features Elisabeth Lewis Corley, Noor Hashem, Christine Evans, and more.
