Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility - Tapa blanda

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EDITORS BIOGRAPHIES: Andrea Fekete is granddaughter to Mexican and Hungarian immigrants and a native of the southern West Virginia coalfields. She grew up a West Virginia holler girl who loved to write but with no idea if anyone would read girls' work, especially work by holler girls. But she'd go on to university at nineteen and discover women's studies, feminism, and literature by women of all races, nationalities, and religions. She holds an MA in English from Marshall University and an MFA in Creative Writing from WV Wesleyan College. She is author of an historical fiction novel of the West Virginia coal mine wars of 1920, Waters Run Wild (2010), and of one poetry chapbook, I Held a Morning (2012). Her fiction and poetry often appear in journals such as Chiron Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Kentucky Review, Montucky Review, Adirondack Review, and ABZ, She is a contributor to the anthology Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods: Fiction and Poetry from West Virginia (2017), among others.Lara Lillibridge sings offbeat and dances off-key. She writes a lot, and sometimes even likes how it turns out. Lara is a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. In 2016, she won Slippery Elm Literary Journal's Prose Contest, and the American Literary Review's Contest in Nonfiction. She also was a finalist in both Black Warrior Review's Nonfiction Contest and DisQuiet's Literary Prize in Creative Nonfiction. Her memoir Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home was published in 2018 with Skyhorse. She has had essays published in Salon, Hippocampus, Crab Fat Magazine, Luna Luna, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, Airplane Reading, Thirteen Ways to Tell a Story, Weirderary, and Brain, Child Magazine's Brain, Mother blog. Some of her essays can be found in the anthologies Tallish, Raised by Unicorns, and In Season.AUTHOR HOME : Fekete: Charleston, WV; Lillibridge: Lakewood, OH