Emphasizing the importance of quiet observations of the natural world, Kathryn Gillespie’s probing, meditative nature book "The Sound of Feathers" is about human encounters with animals. The thoughtful essays address the ethics of... Read More

Dani Netherclift’s sublime memoir commemorates her father’s and brother’s accidental deaths and ponders corporeality and impermanence. One scorching afternoon in 1993, Netherclift’s father and brother drowned while swimming in an... Read More

The intimate essays in "Swaddled" aim to support mothers as people outside of their children. In Elizabeth Sarah Cassidy’s confessional essay collection "Swaddled", mothers discuss how becoming a parent changed them. When Cassidy’s... Read More

Alexis Lathem’s enchanting essay collection "Lambs in Winter" celebrates simplified living on the small farm where Lathem raises sheep and cultivates vegetables with her husband. Their rural three acres in Vermont structure their... Read More

Catharina Coenen’s memoir-in-essays "Unexploded Ordnance" draws on history, biology, philosophy, and linguistics to explore social trauma and unspoken, inherited memories. A German immigrant, Coenen moved to the United States for... Read More

Leah Altman’s bold memoir-in-essays is about reclaiming her Native American identity after a transracial adoption and traumatic upbringing. Following the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, the book reports, up to 35% of Native American... Read More

Everyday womanhood is celebrated in the travel essay collection "There She Goes". These seventeen essays by women of all ages and backgrounds focus on the quotidian particularities of existing as a woman. One entry, about a visit to... Read More

Julie Marie Wade’s shrewd and winsome memoir Other People’s Mothers is about the gendered conventions of her 1980s and 1990s Seattle girlhood. Nine chapters, covering Wade’s life from the ages of six to thirteen, center... Read More