Table of Contents:
  • Literary gatekeepers (and other myths). What would Edén say? Reclaiming the personal and grounding story in Chicana feminist (academic) writing / Kandace Creel Falcón
  • Imposter poet: recovering from graduate school / Jessica Lopez Lyman
  • A case for writing while black / Sherrie Fernandez Williams
  • Mamatowisin: writing as spiritual praxis / Nia Allery
  • The tyranny of grammar. Complete this sentence: Say it loud! ____! / Brenda Bell Brown
  • Crazy / Chris Stark
  • Saying my name with happiness / Ching-in Chen
  • Dancing between bamboos or the rules of wrong grammar / Marlina Gonzalez
  • Identity(ies). Intersectional bribes and the cost of poetry / Sagirah Shahid
  • It happened in fragments / Isela Xitlali Gómez R.
  • Creating Native American mirrors: and making a living as a writer / Marcie Rendon
  • Notes in journey from a writer of the mix / Anya Achtenberg
  • Personal narratives. The thenar space: writing beyond emotion and experience into story / Taiyon J. Coleman
  • How Maya Angelou empowered me to write / Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay
  • Legendary documents / Tou SaiKo Lee
  • Stories that must be told / Luis Lopez
  • Telling stories that should not be passed on / Wesley Brown
  • Rejection not an option. Fear of an apocalypse: racial marginalization on the act of writing / Hei Kyong Kim
  • Picking a goot' Indin (a play selection from No Res Rezpect) / William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.
  • Perfectly untraditional / Sweta Srivastava Vikram
  • Healing the heart. Our silence won't save us: recovering the medicine in our stories / Anaïs Deal-Márquez
  • Writing: healing from the things I cannot change / Lori Young-Williams
  • Stories from the heart of dark eyed woman--Sidkadiyaki / Olive Lefferson
  • A fundmanetal human yearning / Michael Kleber-Diggs.