Julie R. Enszer
Shepherd Jesus was one but I am not thinking about sheep rather German ones because a woman from the synagogue has two beloved pets of her eleven-year-old twin […]
Read MoreIN Spring 2025
Why Read Biography? New Biographical Writing on Adrienne Rich (on Hilary Holladay’s The Power of Adrienne Rich and Ed Pavlić’s Outward: Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes)
“I do not even understand why people read biography! They should just read the poems to understand Rich.” This impassioned, frustrated interjection by a friend was in response to Hilary […]
Read MoreIN Winter 2022
Between 1990 and 1999, eight national OutWrite conferences convened, first in San Francisco, then in Boston, gathering gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer literary luminaries for a weekend celebrating literary […]
Read MoreIN Winter 2021
In her ground-breaking, best-selling book Writing a Woman’s Life (1988), feminist Carolyn G. Heilbrun describes four ways to write a woman’s life: autobiography, fiction, biography, and an unnamed way in […]
Read MoreIN Fall 2020