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Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation Curators/Editors Rachel Neve-Midbar and Jennifer Saunders Review by Christine Stewart-Nuñez Scholar Andrea Lunsford describes predominant rhetorical features of women’s writing—across centuries—as breaking silence and naming in personal terms. These two features resonated…
Review by Catherine Hayes In her latest novel, Foundations, Abigail Stewart tells the story of three unique, individualistic women living in three separate eras of history who find their stories connected not only through the Dallas ranch house they…
Review by Jiwon Choi In Land Marks, Sharon Tracey’s third book of poetry, the poet has created a body of work that evokes what Robin Wall Kimmerer describes as the longing to live in a world made of gifts,…
Review by Laura Dennis When you hear “fragile objects,” what is the first thing that comes to mind? Do you think of valuables one keeps locked in a case lest they be destroyed, or does your mind immediately reach…
Review by Mary Ellen Talley Kate Reavey brings a sense of the circularity of seasons and motherhood in CURVE, her first full length poetry collection. The five sections of free verse encompass an arc of personal experiences: motherhood, parenting,…
Review by Gabby Gilliam In her captivating debut poetry collection, Ellis Elliot delves into the multifaceted role of mothering. In her poem “Anthem”, she writes “This is about every mother, everywhere, and the dreadful dark we find ourselves in…
Review by Melanie McGehee a petit mal, the debut nonfiction work of visual artist and poet Ana Maria Caballero was awarded The Black Spring Press Group’s International Beverly Prize and was a finalist for AWP’s Kurt Brown Prize. A…
Review by Angela Williamson Emmert Minnesota poet Jennifer Manthey opens her award-winning, debut collection The Fight not with conflict but with an unexpected, though fraught, agreement. “U.S. Embassy, Kinshasa, DRC” describes the process of an overseas adoption through a…
Review by Teresa Tumminello Brader LaToya Jordan has many illustrious writing credits, including a piece in Mom Egg Review 13; several are devoted to the experiences of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, and she writes across several genres. To the…
An Interview with Debut Memoirists Lauren Kay Johnson and Paige Towers Interview by Emily Avery-Miller The Fine Art of Camouflage by Lauren Kay Johnson is a debut memoir that explores what it means to be a woman in a…