March 8th, 2011 / 7:33 pm
 Massive People

It’s International Women’s Day 2011!

What follows is a list of writers who amaze me.

Locals: Roxane Gay • Evelyn Hampton • Lily Hoang • Kristen Iskandrian • Catherine Lacey • Chelsea Martin • Amy McDaniel • Alissa Nutting • Alexis Orgera • Jackie Wang

Notables: Amelia Gray • Aimee Bender • Judy Budnitz • Trinie Dalton • Christine Schutt • Jac Jemc • Lydia Millet • Catie Rosemurgy • Claire Donato • Renata Adler • Leni Zumas • Eudora Welty • Eileen Myles • Amber Sparks • Flannery O’Connor • Joyelle McSweeney • Jackie Corley • Patricia Highsmith • Ellen Bryan Voigt • Mary Ruefle • Myla Goldberg • Karen Russel. Carolyn Chute • Kathrine Dunn • Mary Miller • Kate Walbert • Amy Hempel • Amanda Filipacchi • Tillie Olsen • Joanna Howard • Claudia Smith • Melissa Broder • Grace Paley • Katherine Anne Porter • Pagan Kennedy • Suzanne Burns • Victoria Blake • Sandy Florian • Shirley Jackson • Emily Dickinson • Marcy Dermansky • Lorrie Moore • Kate Bernheimer • Alice Munro • Kim Chinquee • Francine Prose • Janet Frame • Brandi Wells • Robin Romm • Mary Robison • Antonya Nelson • Rosalynde Vas Dias • Sheila Heti • Amy Fusselman • Samantha Hunt • Harper Lee • Lucy Corin • Mavis Gallant • Robin Elizabeth Black • Diane Williams • Adria Bernardi • Stacey D’Erasmo • Frayn Masters • Heather McHugh • Cynthia Ozick • Christine Fadden • Ariana Reines • Laura Hendrie • Kelly Link • Stevie Smith • Hannah Tinti • Kathryn Regina • Rachel Sherman • Nelly Reifler • Stacey Levine • Rebecca Curtis • Stacey Richter • Amy Minton • Carol Emshwiller • Rebecca Solnit • Lydia Davis • Ann Cummins • Kathy Acker • Marianne Moore • Dawn Raffel • Chelsey Minnis • Susan Minot • Angela Carter • Lindsay Hunter • Gina Berriault • Lynne Tillman • Anna Clark • Lore Segal • Sarah Shun-lien Bynum • Carole Maso • Kristina Born • Paula Bomer • Terese Svoboda • Emily Kendal Frey • Karen Brennan • Mary Gaitskill • Elisa Gabbert • Susan Neville • Grace Krilanovich • Yannick Murphy • Muriel Spark • Gertrude Stein • Deb Olin Unferth • Shelley Jackson • Sara Manguso • Joy Williams • Katy Lederer • Jayne Anne Phillips • Heather Christle • Courtney Eldridge • Rachel Glaser • A.M. Homes • Susan Howe • Miranda Mellis • Eileen Gunn • Dorothea Lasky • Rebecca Brown • Deborah Eisenberg • Pia Ehrhardt • Elizabeth Ellen • xTx • Andrea Kneeland • Kendra Grant Malone • Ellen Kennedy • Alicia Jo Rabins • Alix Ohlin • Laura van den Berg • Rebecca Wolff • Karen Finneyfrock • Carson McCullers • Anne Boyer • Molly Gaudry • Laynie Browne • Vanessa Place • Maggie Nelson

Many are alive and would probably be happy to submit something to The New Yorker. So, if you work at The New Yorker, take a look.

I feel sort of like I might just delete any comment to this post that doesn’t begin with at least ten more for the list.

UPDATE

Was adding commented names, but realized you can just see them in the comments. Strong names in the comments section so far.

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94 Comments

  1. March 8th, 2011 / 11:50 pm darby—

      I agree with deb Olin unferth being in the list twice. Also add if not in there Juliette cook Lillian Bertram cami fucking park Kim Parko Anne Marie Rooney Brandi wells infinite etc

  2. March 9th, 2011 / 12:00 am Matthew Simmons—

      Wells was there. Added yr adds.

  3. March 9th, 2011 / 12:04 am davidpeak—

      i’d like to add kate zambreno. is she on there? she’s been making my week seem okay.

  4. March 9th, 2011 / 12:04 am stephen—
  5. March 9th, 2011 / 12:09 am Ryan Call—

      second kim parko.

      add alexandra chasin please.

  6. March 9th, 2011 / 12:09 am stephen—
  7. March 9th, 2011 / 12:09 am Daniel Bailey—

      anne carson, bernadette mayer, sasha steensen, lyn hejinian. that was off the top of my head.

  8. March 9th, 2011 / 12:10 am Matthew Simmons—

      Got it.

  9. March 9th, 2011 / 12:10 am Matthew Simmons—

      Got ’em.

  10. March 9th, 2011 / 12:12 am Matthew Simmons—

      Just realized that when you hit “More,” you see all the comments, anyway. So, no real reason to update the post. Silly me.

  11. March 9th, 2011 / 12:17 am Matthew Simmons—

      Funnily enough, I didn’t mention Dorothy Parker.

      So, Dorothy Parker.

      And Don Mee Choi.

  12. March 9th, 2011 / 12:22 am a.m. conrad—

      You should add Renee Gladman and Danielle Dutton. Respectively, author involved with and editor of the Dorothy Project, the excellent women-centric publishing venture.

  13. March 9th, 2011 / 12:23 am a.m. conrad—
  14. March 9th, 2011 / 12:27 am Amber—

      Mina Loy! Lindsay Hunter! Susan Daitch! Ethel Rohan! Grace Paley! Amy King! Lauren Becker! The Brontes! Yay for this post and yay for Matthew Simmons. This list makes me happy.

  15. March 9th, 2011 / 12:34 am stephen—
  16. March 9th, 2011 / 12:38 am Matthew Simmons—
  17. March 9th, 2011 / 12:42 am Roxane—

      I would add Alicia Erian, Tayari Jones, Tanya Jarrett, Lidia Yuknavitch, Cheryl Strayed, Sarah Rose Etter, Susie Bright, Jonterri Gadson, and Kirsty Logan.

  18. March 9th, 2011 / 12:51 am Matthew Simmons—

      Just gonna “like” comments like mad from here on in.

  19. March 9th, 2011 / 12:56 am Shannon—

      Bell Hooks, Nikki Giovanni, Patti Smith, Kate Bornstein, Jillian Lauren, Darcy Steinke (I may have spelled her name wrong)

  20. March 9th, 2011 / 12:57 am Matt Briggs—

      I would add: Iris Murdoch, Margaret Atwood, Melissa Pritchard, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, Zadie Smith, Ursula K. Leguin, Joyce Thompson, Margaret Wise Brown, Betty McDonald, Octavia Butler, and Ann Carson.

  21. March 9th, 2011 / 12:57 am Roxane—

      Almost forgot. Dylan Landis.

  22. March 9th, 2011 / 1:15 am Mark Doten—

      heather lewis. her novel “notice” is one of the best and most brutal things i’ve ever read.

  23. March 9th, 2011 / 1:17 am Mark Doten—

      elizabeth hardwick, jane bowles

  24. March 9th, 2011 / 1:18 am Mark Doten—

      mary caponegro

  25. March 9th, 2011 / 1:18 am Mark Doten—

      mary caponegro

  26. March 8th, 2011 / 9:21 pm Inspiry in places and reading around the web. « About that Writing thing.—

      […] International Woman’s Day and HTMLGIANT has a really good women author post. Go read that here. Add to the […]

  27. March 9th, 2011 / 1:29 am chet—

      donna tart

  28. March 9th, 2011 / 1:29 am chet—

      donna tart

  29. March 9th, 2011 / 1:30 am chet—

      *tartt

  30. March 9th, 2011 / 1:30 am chet—

      *tartt

  31. March 9th, 2011 / 1:39 am Gabe Durham—

      Lorrie Moore (not on there, right?), Sarah Norek, Anne Lamott, Noy Holland, Ingeborg Bachman, Marilyn Robinson, CD Wright, Shellie Zacharia, Emily Toder, Elizabeth Crane

  32. March 9th, 2011 / 1:42 am Matthew Simmons—

      (She’s there. No harm in doubles, though.)

  33. March 9th, 2011 / 1:43 am Madison Langston—

      Heather Streckfus-Green, Daniela Olszewska, Porochista Khakpour, Lina Miguel, Lara Glenum

      oh and Simone de Beauvoir!

  34. March 9th, 2011 / 1:46 am letters journal—

      Fuck yeah Elizabeth Hardwick.

  35. March 9th, 2011 / 2:08 am Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      Kathleen Rooney, Dodie Bellamy, Sapphire, Arundhati Roy, Mary Hamilton, Amina Cain, Kathy Fish, Kuzhali Manickavel, Rikki Ducornet, Ito Hiromi, Meg Pokrass, Paula Fox, Jeanette Winterson

  36. March 9th, 2011 / 2:22 am Dylan Hicks—

      Great list and addenda. Maybe I’m reading too sloppily but it seems the 19th century is being slighted: George Eliot, the Bronte sisters, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley. Of course this could go on till next year.

  37. March 9th, 2011 / 2:24 am Dylan Hicks—

      Oh, I guess someone just cited the Brontes (and all the others, no doubt).

      Aphra Behn should be there somewhere.

  38. March 9th, 2011 / 2:26 am AM—
  39. March 9th, 2011 / 2:28 am Tim Jones-Yelvington—
  40. March 9th, 2011 / 2:30 am Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      Rachel’s on the original list, she was one of the people I used to the find feature to double check for.

  41. March 9th, 2011 / 2:31 am Dylan Hicks—

      Anne at last on an equal footing.

  42. March 9th, 2011 / 2:46 am deadgod—

      Sandra Cisneros is a wonderful novelist and poet. Susan is there, but so should Fanny Howe be, whose In the Middle of Nowhere is an “amazing” novel. The late Veronica Forrest-Thomson wrote superb poetry that I’m surprised isn’t mentioned more at HTMLG.

      I think Penelope Fitzgerald wrote novels as well as any of her peers. Elizabeth Bishop?

      Akhmatova ‘or’ Tsvetaeva – if you don’t take both, yer an idjit.

      Surprised not to find Zora Neale Hurston (probably missed her twice), whose There Eyes Were Watching God is the peer of faulknerhemingwayfitzgerald. I’m a big Willa Cather fan; Death Comes for the Archbishop is a great book.

      For the historically inclined: Jane Austen is, ironically, becoming a neglected classic – ‘ironically’ because of the popularity of her screenplays. Aphra Behn wrote an okay novel in English before Richardson or Defoe, and wrote drama as well as Dryden. Anne Finch was a poetic peer of Pope. Anna Laetitia Barbauld wrote poems at least as well as the mostly-overrated Romantics.

      And where is the Tenth Muse???:

      The moon has set
      and the Pleiades, and mid
      night, and the hour passes and passes alongside,
      and I am lying down here alone.

  43. March 9th, 2011 / 2:52 am deadgod—

      Villette is beautifully written. I hope I’m not the only Charlotte fan in the world who thinks Emily is overrated.

  44. March 9th, 2011 / 2:53 am deadgod—

      Mary Ann Evans is a strong, sharp call.

  45. March 9th, 2011 / 2:58 am Kimthomas73—

      Glad to see Carole Maso! I would like to add Katherine Mansfield and Kate Braverman.

  46. March 9th, 2011 / 3:05 am letters journal—

      Classics: Simone Weil, Rosa Luxemberg, Elizabeth Hardwick, Susan Griffin, Diana di Prima, Anne Carson, Hilda Doolittle, Elaine Dundy

      Newish: Erin Keane, Danielle Evans, Marcy Dermansky, Tatyana Tolstaya

  47. March 9th, 2011 / 3:21 am John Minichillo—

      Joyce Carol Oates. Alice Walker. ZZ Packer. Louise Erdrich.

  48. March 9th, 2011 / 3:35 am Tim Horvath—

      Marilyn Bowering. Elizabeth Tallent. Mary Butts. Tina May Hall. Heidi Julavits. Rebecca Makkai.

  49. March 9th, 2011 / 3:46 am Kevin Sampsell—

      You’ll be adding Myriam Gurba on your list soon. Just wait. Her chapbook is due out next month. Matthew–you ever see Michelle Tea read, or Beth Lisick. They are dynamite! And what about Miriam Toews and Trinie Dalton?

  50. March 9th, 2011 / 3:53 am Justin—

      Darcey Steinke
      Ange Mlinko
      Martha Serpas
      AM Homes
      Mary Ruefle

  51. March 9th, 2011 / 4:02 am Kate—

      chris kraus
      pamela lu
      gail scott
      catherine mavrikakis
      rachel levitsky
      anna kavan
      unica zurn
      laure
      elsa morante
      elfriede jelinek

  52. March 9th, 2011 / 4:04 am William—

      Hillary Mantel, Selah Saterstrom, Gail Simone, Kelly Sue DeConnick, seconding Darcey Steinke, Ursula le Guin, Jeanette Winterson, Hope Larson, Alison Bechdel, Heather McHugh, Jena Osman, Suzanne Collins, Susanna Clarke

  53. March 9th, 2011 / 4:07 am Justin—

      I can’t believe I forgot Winterson. She is my favorite author of alltime probably.

  54. March 9th, 2011 / 4:53 am brittany wallace—

      banana yoshimoto

  55. March 9th, 2011 / 6:01 am James Yeh—

      Good stuff. You’ve got a lot of my faves–O’Connor, Davis, Tillman, Unferth, Williams (Joy and Diane)…

      But you’ve forgotten Clarice Lispector and Joan Didion(!) (Lispector’s “The Fifth Story” is one of my favorite short stories of all time.)

      And to second Stephen, yeah, Woolf… and to second the person who said Willa Cather.

      And two who we’re publishing in Gigantic #3 and who I think people will want to be on the look out for, Chloe Cooper Jones and Anelise Chen.

  56. March 9th, 2011 / 6:02 am James Yeh—

      Also, Heidi Julavits and Vendela Vida, simply for being 2/3 of the force that started The Believer.

  57. March 9th, 2011 / 6:16 am Anna Clark—

      Lynn Nottage, Nadine Gordimer, Kate DiCamillo, Alina Bronsky, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Lori Ostlund, Katie Bowler, Adrienne Rich, Mary McCarthy, Muriel Rukeyser, Wendy Wasserstein, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Arundhati Roy,

  58. March 9th, 2011 / 6:28 am Chantel—

      Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Téa Obreht, Reese Okyong Kwon, Randa Jarrar, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Melinda Moustakis, Drew Grant, Elif Batuman, Firoozeh Dumas, Azadeh Moaveni !!!

  59. March 9th, 2011 / 6:55 am MFBomb—

      I know Melinda. She recently won the FOC award for her collection, “Bear Down, Bear North,” which will be out in the Fall of 2011 from UGA Press. The stories are set in Alaska. Be sure to check it out, y’all.

  60. March 9th, 2011 / 6:58 am Chantel—

      Yes! I read “Some Other Animal” in the latest ASF and so look forward to that collection.

  61. March 9th, 2011 / 6:58 am MFBomb—

      Caroline Gordon (forgotten Southern writer from the Modernist era), Kathryn Davis, Jaimy Gordon, Stephanie Vaughn, and Selah Saterstrom.

  62. March 9th, 2011 / 7:00 am MFBomb—

      Me too. HTMLGiant should review it when it comes out…..

  63. March 9th, 2011 / 7:19 am Sarah Malone—

      Allegra Goodman, Dana Spiotta, Amanda Davis, Yiyun Li, Elizabeth Bowen, Rebecca West, Heather Christle, Ann Beattie, Mavis Gallant, Caitlin Horrocks

  64. March 9th, 2011 / 12:52 pm Regina—

      Yes! to Tillie Olsen & Grace Paley. Overlooked by too many.

  65. March 9th, 2011 / 1:54 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      I prefer to watch Kate Bush dance on the moors.

  66. March 9th, 2011 / 3:39 pm jimmy—

      You forgot a few… Lisa Jarnot, Caroline Bergvall, Sarah Vap, Jenny Erpenbeck, Jessica Treat, Maira Kalman, Donna Stonecipher, Merce Rodoreda, Sawako Nakayasu, Mairead Byrne, Tove Jansson, Brenda Hillman, Maria Dermout, Barbara Comyns, Edna O’Brien, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marguerite Duras, Diana Wynne Jones, Ana Bozicevic, Allison Benis White, Inger Christensen, Eleni Sikelianos, Madeleine L’Engle, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gabriela Mistral, Amelie Nothomb, Magda Szabo, Fran Ross, Can Xue, Rose Macaulay, Sue Hubbell, Isak Dinesen, Marjorie Welish, Beverly Dahlen, Dubravka Ugrešić, Mary Webb, Lorine Niedecker, Lisa Robertson, Eileen Chang, Laura Riding Jackson, Olga Tokarczuk, Maria Barbal, Carmen Laforet, Violette Leduc, Elena Garro, Marian Engel, Linda Lê, Sophie Calle, Heather McGowan, Adelheid Duvanel, Helen DeWitt, JK Rowling, Nella Larsen, Betty Smith, گلی ترقی , Barbara Newhall Follett, Shahrnush Parsipur, Forough Farrokhzad, Cora Sandel, Dawn Lundy Martin, Beryl Markham, Kira Henehan, Ingrid Winterbach, Dara Horn, Gail Hareven, Wendy Walker, Keri Hulme, Stella Gibbons, Barbara Pym, Ellen Raskin, Rosemarie Waldrop, Christine Hume, Diane Glancy, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Barbara Guest, Jean Valentine, Sylvia Plath, H.D., Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Cole Swensen, Marjane Satrapi, Leslie Scalapino…

  67. March 9th, 2011 / 3:43 pm M. Kitchell—

      time to frenchify this shit up:

      danielle collobert
      anne-maria albiach
      dominique fourcade
      natalie saurrate
      marguerite duras (damn, can’t believe this ain’t on here already)
      liliane giraudon
      marie redonnet
      chantal chawaf
      jacqueline risset
      nicole brossard
      marie darrieussecq
      alina reyes
      jean/jeanne de berg (aka of catherine robbe-grillet)
      pauline reage (aka domininque aury)

      and not french but sort of french-y
      agota kristof
      margarita karapanou

      and she’s already been listed but ANNA KAVAN should be listed 100 times
      ANNA KAVAN

  68. March 9th, 2011 / 4:16 pm deadgod—

      I’d like to add some ‘names’ that I feel bad about having forgotten yesterday.

      Kiki Dimoula is an “amazing” Greek poet; more of her poetry should be translated into English, and, if she wins the Big Prize, I’m sure that’ll happen. – as it did with Wislawa Szymborska, also a fine poet. Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke writes excellent poetry in Greek and translates Greek poetry (including her own) quite well into English.

      Jennifer Johnston is a wonderful Irish novelist, surprisingly less well-known here in the US than she should be, considering the (to me) well-deserved attention Trevor and, on this very list, O’Brien get here.

  69. March 9th, 2011 / 4:22 pm Alban Fischer—

      Great list. I don’t believe anyone mentioned Fleur Jeggy? Story: When I met the poet Diane Wakoski, I told her that when I was young she was one of the first poets I really acquainted myself with (which is true). And she shot me this look that said: “Don’t bullshit me. I’m a woman poet. Young men don’t read women poets.”

  70. March 9th, 2011 / 4:54 pm Trey—

      Julia Cohen, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Ally Harris, Julie Doxsee, Emily Pettit, Claire Becker

      yay! I feel as if I’m forgetting important people here, though

  71. March 9th, 2011 / 4:57 pm jesusangelgarcia—

      Way too late to this party, but what a party! Love this list. And the adds. I didn’t see the frightening power woman Elfriede Jelinek, nor trailblazer Anais Nin, nor pioneer Sappho. Lest we forget. Thanks for this, Matthew and everyone. What a resource.

  72. March 9th, 2011 / 5:13 pm deadgod—

      Psappho hasn’t been forgotten, jesus; she is Plato’s Tenth Muse. I spy Jelinek and Nin, too. – among a blizzard of ‘names’, half and more of which I haven’t heard of (or don’t remember). Were there world enough, and time . . .

  73. March 9th, 2011 / 5:38 pm jesusangelgarcia—

      Good to know, deadgod. Ja, blizzard & time… per favore.

  74. March 9th, 2011 / 5:39 pm mimi—

      I love this.

  75. March 9th, 2011 / 6:06 pm barry—

      heather o neill, heather fowler, kim parko, roxane gay, lydia copeland, kathy fish

  76. March 9th, 2011 / 6:10 pm barry—

      bonnie jo campbell, erin pringle, lindsay hunter, mary hamilton, alexandra isacson,

  77. March 9th, 2011 / 6:23 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Some wonderful additions, folks. Thanks for sharing with us.

  78. March 9th, 2011 / 6:27 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Totally slighted the 19th century. Thanks for making sure they were listed.

  79. March 9th, 2011 / 6:28 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Trinie’s fourth on the list. Love Wide Eyed so very much.

  80. March 9th, 2011 / 10:06 pm kirsten—

      Margaret Atwood, Ursula LeGuin, Octavia Butler, Judith Budnitz, Alice Notley, Marguerite Yourcenar, Rikki Ducornet, Leslie Marmon Silko, Doris Lessing, Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Sexton. I know you said ten, but mine goes to eleven.

  81. March 9th, 2011 / 10:39 pm Dylan Landis—

      toni morrison, elizabeth strout, sharon olds, zadie smith, jane austen, herta muller, valerie martin, andrea lee, judith freeman, rikki ducornet, pat barker, harriet doerr, zz packer. what an imaginative & spirited list! and thank you, roxane!

  82. March 9th, 2011 / 11:23 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      I want somebody to buy this for me.

  83. March 9th, 2011 / 11:25 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      (I want to say something abt how happy I am Rebecca Brown was already on your original list).

  84. March 10th, 2011 / 12:00 am deadgod—

      – and thanks to Matthew for a hearty party star-tee.

  85. March 10th, 2011 / 12:08 am Matthew Simmons—

      Brown’s a local hero for me. So, so good.

  86. March 10th, 2011 / 12:48 am HB—

      Valerie Martin, Andrea Levy, Nicole Kraus, Virginia Woolf (ahem), George Eliot (ahem), Tillie Olsen, Julia Alvarez, Dorothy Allison, Joan Didion, Joan Silber, Jane Hamilton, Mary Morris, Carol Shields, Maxine Hong Kingston, Paula Sharp.

  87. March 10th, 2011 / 1:19 pm Catherine Lacey—

      and for being brilliant writers in their own right.

  88. March 10th, 2011 / 1:21 pm Catherine Lacey—

      I want to add Lidia Yukavitch again because I am so blown away by her forthcoming memoir. Check that shit out.

  89. March 10th, 2011 / 5:18 pm Roxane—

      Seriously. I read it again last night and the person I was with said, “Again, really?” I had to say, YES, MOFO, deal with it.

  90. March 10th, 2011 / 5:28 pm James Yeh—

      I actually haven’t read their fiction, so I didn’t want to talk about something I didn’t know firsthand. But maybe I should take your word for it!

  91. March 10th, 2011 / 5:54 pm Whatisinevidence—

      Zane, LaJill Hunt, Sister Souljah, Ashley JaQuavis, Monica Marie Jones, Nikki Urban, Takerra Allen, Meesha Mink, Kiki Swinson

  92. March 11th, 2011 / 10:30 pm Joe—

      Dodie Bellamy, Debra Di Blasi, Thalia Field, Kass Fleisher (my wife), Fanny Howe, Bhanu Kapil, Laura Mullen, (the late) Akilah Oliver, Michelle Naka Pierce, Susan Schultz, Stephanie Strickland, Elizabeth Willis, Anne Waldman, Laura Wright…

  93. April 21st, 2011 / 5:43 am Markpsadler—

      Margaret Regan; Elizabeth Gunn; Sonia Nazario; Nancy Deville; Deborah Ledford; Meg Files; Daphne Du Maurier; Amy Stewart; Sue Monk Kidd

  94. April 21st, 2011 / 5:43 am Markpsadler—

      Margaret Regan; Elizabeth Gunn; Sonia Nazario; Nancy Deville; Deborah Ledford; Meg Files; Daphne Du Maurier; Amy Stewart; Sue Monk Kidd