The woman who slept with one eye open: notes on being a writer / Judith Ortiz Cofer
Poetry began me / Marilyn Kallet
Inking in the myth / Alice Friman
Listening for the singing goose / Amy Friedman Fraser
Manipulations in the darkroom / Barbara Goldberg
Fire, wax, smoke / Sandra Benítez
Five a.m.: writing as ritual / Cofer
Writing in no-time / Lucy Ferriss
Excerpts from a talk by Tillie Olsen / Tillie Olsen
Doing what you will do: an interview with Lucille Clifton by Marilyn Kallet / Lucille Clifton
Hedging bets on motherhood / Pamela Walker
The artist as single mother / Katherine Smith
Writing between dreams / Elaine Zimmerman
Writing Fellini / Colleen J. McElroy
Walking into poetry / Patricia Clark
The prime necessity / Denise Levertov
Writing the impossible / Hilda Raz
The elephant in my living room: depression and the writing life / Lynna Williams
Selective listening and resistance: a writer's capacity to thrive / Mary C. Lewis
The glass cage / Aleida Rodríguez
Sounds of hazard and survival / Colette Inez
Finding the groove / Joy Harjo
The writer in the family / Julie Checkoway
The pure place / Tess Gallagher
Earning Virginia Woolf's room / Eileen Tabios
Rescue from within: do you wish to save? / Linda Parsons Marion
My father's legacy, or why I write/ Janice Eidus.