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Minda Honey’s writing has been featured by Longreads, Oxford American, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Playboy, Vice, and other major publications. She’s working on a memoir about dating as a Black woman in Southern California, working title An Anthology of Assholes.
Leslie Jamison is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Recovering (Little, Brown, 2018) and The Empathy Exams (Graywolf Press, 2014), as well as a novel, The Gin Closet (Free Press, 2010), and the essay collection Make It Scream, Make It Burn (Little, Brown), just released this fall. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and directs the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University.
Erin Khar’s debut memoir, Strung Out, is forthcoming from Park Row Books in 2020. Erin is also the managing editor at Ravishly, where she writes the weekly advice column, Ask Erin.
Marissa Korbel is the creator and author of The Thread, a monthly essay column for The Rumpus. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including Harper’s Bazaar, Guernica, Bitch, and The Manifest-Station. She works as a public interest attorney on issues affecting campus and minor sexual assault survivors.
Shaheen Pasha is the co-editor of Mirror on the Veil: A Collection of Personal Essays on Hijab and Veiling (Critical, Cultural and Communications Press, 2017), and her work has appeared in the Dallas Morning News, Narratively, New England Public Radio, USA Today, The Daily Beast, and Quartz, among other publications. She is working on a memoir about madness and the Pakistani-American immigrant experience.
Samantha Riedel is a freelance politics and culture writer specializing in transgender issues. Her essays and interviews have previously appeared in Bitch, them., Teen Vogue, and Publishers Weekly. She lives in western Massachusetts, where she is currently at work on her first book.
Sheryl Ring is a consumer rights attorney and the legal director at Open Communities, a not-for-profit legal aid agency serving underprivileged families in the Chicagoland area. Sheryl is a regular contributor to FanGraphs, where she focuses on the legal side of baseball; her work has also been featured in Chicago magazine and in the forthcoming 2019 BP Annual from Baseball Prospectus.
Marisa Siegel lives, writes, and edits near NYC but thinks twenty times a day about heading back west. She holds an MFA in poetry from Mills College in Oakland, California. She is editor in chief and owner of The Rumpus.
Megan Stielstra is the author of three collections, most recently The Wrong Way to Save Your Life (Harper Perennial, 2017). Her work appears in Best American Essays, the New York Times, The Believer, Longreads, Guernica, The Rumpus, and on National Public Radio. She is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern University.
Nina St. Pierre is a writer and editor with an MFA from Rutgers. Her work has been published in Catapult, Narratively, InStyle, GOOD, Flaunt, Bitch, and Brooklyn Magazine. She’s finishing a memoir about self-immolation set in rural Northern California and a collection of essays about boundaries via sex and spirituality.
Meredith Talusan’s debut memoir, Fairest, is forthcoming in spring 2020 from Viking/Penguin Random House.
Monet Patrice Thomas is a poet and writer from North Carolina. She holds an MFA from the Inland Northwest Center for Writers at Eastern Washington University in Spokane, Washington. She is the interviews editor at The Rumpus. Her story “Ring of Salt” was featured in Best Small Fictions 2018, chosen by guest editor Aimee Bender.
Reema Zaman is an award-winning author, speaker, actress, and advocate. Born in Bangladesh, raised in Hawaii and Thailand, she presently lives in Oregon. She is the 2018 Oregon Literary Arts’ Writer of Color Fellow and author of the memoir I Am Yours (Amberjack Press, 2019). Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Dear Sugars podcast, The Guardian, Ms. Magazine, The Rumpus, Guernica, Longreads, Narratively, and elsewhere.
Advance Praise for
Burn It Down
“The twenty-two essays collected in Burn It Down are a gift of sanity and clear-eyed moral vision in an increasingly degraded moral world. This book galvanizes women’s collective and individual rage, even as it redefines how we could and should understand that anger—and ourselves.”
—Lacy M. Johnson, author of The Reckonings and The Other Side
“Burn It Down is deeply affirming for any woman who has struggled with anger in this difficult world. There is no judgment here; only alchemy.”
—Kelly Sundberg, author of Goodbye, Sweet Girl
“Burn It Down is a potent literary offering—a revolution born within the collective rage—expressed, unleashed, sublimated, and capsuled to honor our feminist legacy. Scorched earth speaks through these brilliant women who teach us that vulnerability and ire writ large will save those who have been shamed and condemned. Glorious, punk as hell, and utterly necessary.”
—Sophia Shalmiyev, award-winning author of Mother Winter
“Powerful and provocative, this collection is an instructive read for anyone seeking to understand the many faces—and pains—of womanhood in 21st-century America.”
—Kirkus Reviews