Author Archive: Women Writers Women Books
Dutch by birth and serial emigrant, Barbara currently lives with her husband and daughter in a tiny village in Galicia, Spain, as basic and simple as can be. W Barbara's website.
Embracing the What Ifs: The Fear That Fuels My Writing
by Amanda Speights I first fell in love with books when I read Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell in Mrs. Arter’s fourth-grade class. The idea of becoming an author, though, didn’t occur to me as something I could—or even wanted—to do, until my teen years. My late husband believed in my writing […]
The Inspiration for Gitel’s Freedom
BY IRIS MITLIN LAV My mother’s name in the Yiddish language was Itta Gitel. Many Americans who are Jewish have an English name that they use every day – in my mother’s case it was Anne Gertrude – and a name in the Hebrew or Yiddish language used for ceremonial purposes. Those names were often […]
The Self-Care Phenomenon of Female Friendships and Chosen Family
By Jess Ames Throughout our lifetime, friends of every season will come and go, fade and grow. Some will float away on the wind, while others will take root in our lives and become the backdrop to all our most important moments. Weddings… and everything that comes after. Births. Deaths. Divorce. Anniversaries. Birthdays. New jobs. […]
MATERNAL AMBIVALENCE: The Loving Moments & Bitter Truths of Motherhood: Excerpt
Maternal Ambivalence: The Loving Moments & Bitter Truths of Motherhood by Margo Lowy PhD Maternal Ambivalence is a groundbreaking examination of the myriad complex emotions that accompany motherhood for so many women. Dr. Margo Lowy tackles the dark and shameful feelings associated with this long-misunderstood and taboo topic, offering the reader genuine self-acceptance and a transformative […]
Do The Thing You Are Most Afraid Of
By Joanne Intrator, author of Summons to Berlin: Nazi Theft and A Daughter’s Quest for Justice I was in Edinburgh on my way to Berlin via Amsterdam to give a paper at a conference organized by Benedikt Goebel, an architectural historian and expert on East Berlin where my family’s large manufacturing building was located until […]
WRITING AND TRAUMA: Finding Your Voice
By Cynthia Moore I started writing at 6, filling notebooks with scribbled poems and stories, to drown out the sound of my stepfather’s rage. At night, when the gin flowed freely, his yelling filled the house and all I could do was write, write, write. In the morning, I would tenderly offer a crumpled poem […]
When Did I Get Old ?! by Ellen Yaffa
by Ellen Yaffa Aging is like a cautionary tale. A horrified friend lectures her 70-year old husband as he descends from the roof, “At your age, you shouldn’t be climbing up ladders!” My daughter warns, “Watch your step, use your flashlight.” My partner’s refrain: “Be careful! And whatever you do, don’t fall!” Vulnerability is in […]
Who’s Driving This Novel, Anyway?
By Ellen Meister I’m a pretty intrepid driver. By that I mean I’m unfazed crossing the bridge from suburban Long Island, where I live, to the hurried, harried, horn-hectic streets of Manhattan. But Brooklyn? Dear god, Brooklyn knocks the stuffing out of me. And yet, I chose to set my most recent novel there. A […]
On Creating Galiot Press
by Henriette Lazaridis Co-Founder, Galiot Press A few years ago, I made what was already my customary joke about publishing to a writer friend of mine. “When I have my publishing company,” I said, “I’m going to fix all that.” But I wasn’t really joking, and I think my friend could tell. Because her reply […]
From Headlines to Page: How I Transformed a National News Story into a Suspense Novel
By Regina Buttner Several years ago in my former hometown, the local media was abuzz with the tale of a young man whose parents were compelled to take the drastic step of evicting him from their suburban home for refusing to get a job and contribute to the household. It was a hard-to-believe story that […]
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