These stories may be from the South, but there are no shy, retiring belles here! Whether remembering of the power of a cheerleading uniform or flirting with another woman's husband, the women in this collection of true stories play with fire -- sometimes literally. These stories range from the poetic and personal -- dancing warm nights away with strangers and renting out rooms to adulterers with an exhibitionistic streak -- to the journalistic, including a piece about Willie Carter Sharpe, the "queen of Roanoke rum runners," as well as a story about Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward, whose plan to…mehr
These stories may be from the South, but there are no shy, retiring belles here! Whether remembering of the power of a cheerleading uniform or flirting with another woman's husband, the women in this collection of true stories play with fire -- sometimes literally. These stories range from the poetic and personal -- dancing warm nights away with strangers and renting out rooms to adulterers with an exhibitionistic streak -- to the journalistic, including a piece about Willie Carter Sharpe, the "queen of Roanoke rum runners," as well as a story about Alice Mitchell and Freda Ward, whose plan to run away and live as "man" and wife ended in scandal and murder in 1892. This collection includes contributions by Southern women from a broad range of circumstances and stages of life: teenage cheerleaders, middle-aged lesbians struggling to find acceptance from their aging parents, and Atlanta divorcees trying to get back into the dating game.
Lee Gutkind is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction magazine and the editor of anthologies including The Best Creative Nonfiction series and I Wasn’t Strong Like This When I Started Out: True Stories of Becoming a Nurse. He is currently Distinguished Writer in Residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes and a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, both at Arizona State University. Beth Ann Fennelly directs the MFA Program at Ole Miss, where she was named the 2011 Outstanding Liberal Arts Teacher of the Year. The Tilted World , the novel she co-authored with her husband, Tom Franklin, was published by HarperCollins in October 2013. Dorothy Allison grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of a fifteen-year-old unwed mother who worked as a waitress. A novelist, short-story writer, and poet, Allison received mainstream recognition with her novel Bastard Out of Carolina, a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. Awarded the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, Allison is a member of the board of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She lives in Northern California with her partner Alix and her teenage son, Wolf Michael. A novel, She Who, is forthcoming.
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