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History has consigned Sarah Henry to the same place her husband Patrick did – the basement. In And Sarah His Wife, Christina Campbell brings Ms. Henry upstairs. In doing so, she confounds what’s been assumed for two centuries—was it Sarah Henry, and not Patrick, who first exhorted, “Give me liberty or give me death.” Campbell’s prose uses wit, research, paper cuts, and her own experience with mental illness to cast serious doubt on the standard story of a madwoman wrapped in a “strait-dress” for her own good. Sarah Henry might well have been misunderstood, but Campbell is crystal clear and razor sharp. —Neal Rubin, Detroit News columnist and writer of nationally syndicated comic strip, “Gil Thorpe” And Sarah His Wife is the winner of the 2017 Michigan Writers Cooperative Press chapbook contest in creative nonfiction, selected by contest judge, Neal Rubin.

Christina Campbell earned a MFA in Creative Nonfiction from George Mason University. She is the founder of Onely.org, where she writes about marital status discrimination, a topic she has also written on for Atlantic.com, PsychologyToday.com, and Change.org. Christina lives in Virginia, but fantasizes about settling someday in Leelanau County, MI with her cats.