Kerry Madden and Tina Mozelle Harris, editors
Cover design: Michael J. Alfano
Cover photo: Kiddie Land Coaster by Alvin Hudson
Contents
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poem
- Medeia Starfire, "Ostrich"
- Lisa Horner, "When a Woman Is Really a Constellation" and "Wearing a Paper Bag Is One Kind of Hide and Seek"
- Kathleen Fagley, "Two Weeks after Finding Out about You" and "When Summer Turned to Ash"
- Georgia Kreiger, "Ash, Ash — You Poke and Stir"
- Katherine Webb, "The Static Electricity of Playground Equipment"
- Jeanie Thompson, "Silence: Montgomery, Alabama 1916" and "Helen Remembers Peter Fagan: Palm Sunday, 1916"
- Karen Duffy, "Pathology of Goodness" and "Teaching American High School"
- Lisa Zerkle, "Stupid Things"
- Madelyn Garner, "Hollyhock"
- Mary Kaiser, "She Rehearses the Paradiso Shuffle"
- Anne C. Fowler, "Namesake"
- Meredith Trede, "Working around Peterson’s Field Guide"
- Lauren Fuhrmann, "Peeling Away and Melting"
- Lucy Biederman, "(It’s a Mighty Thin Line)"
- Aimee Parkison, "Immigration Issues"
- Sandra Kohler, "Preparing for Winter"
- Robin K. Johnson, "On Getting Lemons"
- Fabu Carter Brisco, "Clay, Dust and Dirt"
- Jeanine Stevens, "Field Mice"
- Wandajune Bishop-Towle, "Visiting My Stepson on the Staff-Intensive Unit"
- Cathy Linh Che, "First Day" and "Story"
- Valor Brown, "How to Be a Battered Woman"
- Li Yun Alvarado, "Pelo Bueno"
- Sharon Charde, "Coming Out, 1960"
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Afghan Women's Writing Project
- Masha Hamilton, "Zarmeena"
- Roya, "Remembering Fifteen"
- Seeta, "Under Burqa"
- Shogofa, "Kill Silence"
- Meena Y, "My First Namaz"
- Freshta, "I Thought It Was a Dream but When I Woke, I Couldn’t Walk"
- Tabasom, "Far from You"
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memoir
- Donna G. Thomas, "Kiddie Land"
- Elaine Neil Orr, "Passing the Cups"
- Katherine Jamieson, "Ain’t Ready for No Man"
- Telaina Morse Eriksen, "Oatmeal Cream Pie"
- Garnett Kilberg Cohen, "Alzheimer’s Daughter"
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story
- Diane Shipley DeCillis, "The Theory of Everything"
- Bryn Chancellor, "All this History at Once"
- Wendy Fox, "The House"
- Rose Bunch, "Sirenia"
- Nancy Glaub, "Rise"