Sunday, April 08, 2007

Women Writers of Washington DC


Let us begin with Frances Hodgson Burnett. E.D.E.N Southworth. Katherine Ann Porter. Clare Boothe Luce. Alors: thanks to the efforts of Sarah Blake, Mary Kay Zuravleff and Susan Shreve, here's an embryonic Who's Who of Women Writers in today's Washington DC:

Emily Bazelon
Kate Blackwell www.kateblackwell.com
Sarah Blake
Maud Casey
Lisa Coutuier www.lisacouturier.com
Katharine Davis www.katharinedavis.com
Olga Grushin www.olgagrushin.com
E.J. Levy
Wendi Kaufman www.thehappybooker.net
Ann McLaughlin
C.M. Mayo www.cmmayo.com
Kyoko Mori
Faye Moskowitz
Jennifer Oko
Carolyn Parkhurst www.carolynparkhurst.com
Linda Pastan
Erica Perl www.ericaperl.com
Leslie Pietrzyk www.lesliepietrzyk.com
Susan Shreve www.susanshreve.com
Jane Shore
Julia Slavin
Amy Stolls
Mary Kay Zuravleff www.mkzuravleff.com

Two recent very fine anthologies, Grace and Gravity and Enhanced Gravity, both by Richard Peabody, offer an even longer list. More anon.