Issue #12, 1999
Emerging Women Writers II
This issue features work by emerging women writers who tell compelling and intricately detailed stories while being incisive, reflective and deeply personal. This issue begins with the winner of a creative nonfiction best essay award, "Post Mortem," Norma V.L. Clarke's essay about the torture of attending medical school in Jamaica and the riveting hold on her life by her mother. The three semi-finalists, also included in this issue, were: "The Old Sort: Of Connemaras & Sweet Corn" by Caroline Nesbitt, "Dreamland" by Kathryn Hoffman Hughes and "Reunion" by Leaf Seligman.
This issue is out of print.
Table of Contents
FROM THE EDITOR: Spontaneous Connections: Emerging Women Writers—Again Lee Gutkind ... read more
Post Mortem Norma V.L. Clarke
Waiting for the Red Baron Beth Kephart
The Old Sort: Of Connemaras & Sweet Corn Caroline Nesbitt ... read more
Dreamland Kathryn Hoffman Hughes
Recollecting Debra Anne Davis
Afternoon At The Whitney Phyllis Raphael
Stephanie Stephanie Byram
Back to the Future Karen Rile
Reunion Leaf Seligman ... read more
The Monster Between Us Megan Foss
A Sunny Day at the SPCA Ruth Deming
In Search of Alice Walker, or, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Valerie Boyd
COVER TO COVER: Reviews of New Books
Contributors
Amy Boaz
Amy Boaz is a writer and editor in New York. Her story "Waiting for the John Cheever" appears int he "Virgin Fiction" collection (Rob... read more
Beth Kephart
Beth Kephart, the author of five memoirs and several novels for young adults, is also the author of Handling the Truth: On the Writing of... read more
Caroline Nesbitt
Caroline Nesbitt is an actress, author ("The Pony Breeder's Companion," Howell Book House, 1995) and essayist whose work has recently... read more
Charlee Brodsky
Charlee Brodsky, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University, is co-author of the book, "Pittsburgh Revealed: Photographs Since... read more
Debra Anne Davis
Debra Anne Davis received her MFA from the nonfiction program at the University of Iowa.For more information please visit, http://www.... read more
Karen Rile
Karen Rile is a winner of a 1998 Leeway Foundation writer's grant award in creative nonfiction. The author of "Winter Music" and numerous... read more
Kathryn Hoffman Hughes
Kathryn Hoffman Hughes is a master's candidate in the creative writing program at The School of Art Institute of Chicago. "Dreamland" was a... read more
Leaf Seligman
Leaf Seligman is working on a collection of personal essays and short stories and has written two novels. A teacher of writing and women's... read more
Megan Foss
Megan Foss earned her MA at Western Washington University. read more
Norma V.L. Clarke
Norma V.L. Clark was born in London and lived in Jamaica prior to moving to the United States. She is currently completing an MFA in... read more
Phyllis Raphael
Phyllis Raphael teaches in the undergraduate creative writing program of Columbia University's School of the Arts. Her stories and essays... read more
Ruth Deming
Ruth Deming is a poet and therapist living in Willow Grove, Pa. She recently won a 1998 Leeway Foundation writer's grant award for emerging... read more
Stephanie Byram
Stephanie Byram is a post-doctoral fellow in health psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. After a localized recurrence in July 1998,... read more
Valerie Boyd
Valerie Boyd, an Atlanta writer and editor, is working on a biography of Zora Neale Hurston. A condensed version of this story was... read more
