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 VIDA Essays acquired & edited, often through multiple drafts:

• Vidhu Aggarwal: “I’m Nothing, If Not”: An Anecdote of a Jar

• Mirene Arsanios: Many Englishes: On Editing and Power

• Abba Belgrave: Self Censored: When Writing is not Right

• Amy Berkowitz: Paintings I Won’t Paint

• Maria Brandt: Moving Through the Webs

• Catherine A. Brereton: About the (Queer) Author

• Julia Carey: Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry

• Justine Champine: Notes on Femme and Fiction

• Karissa Chen: The Audacity to Dream: On Asian Women, Feminism, and My Grandmother

• Cynthia Cruz: Notes Toward a New Language: On Women Poets and Nourishment

• Tusia Dabrowska: Language is Home

• Natalie Eilbert: What We Don’t Name: The Delicate Path of Literary Crimes

• Vanessa Gabb: Let’s Shake the One

• Hafizah Geter: On Grief

• Ann Glaviano: On (Not) Reporting Sexual Violence

• Anya Groner: Gone from My Heart: Violence and Anger in the Poetry Workshop

• April Naoko Heck & Purvi Shah: Kundiman 10 Years Later: Reflections on Writing Faculty, Workshops, and Telling Our Collective Truth

• Michelle Herman: I Stood There Ironing

• Jean Ho: Getting Along Shouldn’t Be an Ambition

• Janine Joseph: Language of the Border

• Lisa Lee: Racial Invisibility and Erasure in the Writing Workshop

• Carrie Lorig: The Intensity of the Reader: Reading as a Guest / A Thief in the Classroom / In the Wreckage

• Monica McClure: The Other Section

• Jill McDonough: Submitathon! As Applied Feminist Epistomology: Rejecting Models of Scarcity, Believing in Plenty

• Lo Kwa Mei-en: Speak Test: The Silencing of the Racialized Body

• Gayle Mendez: Youth Poetry Slam

• Julia Anna Morrison: The Poet as Beginning Mother

• Nayomi Munaweera: Four Moments in the Life of a Brown Female Writer

• Monica Ong: Poetry, Community, and Reading the Body

• Morgan Parker: White People Love Me: Dispatches from the Token

• Phiroozeh Petigara: A Catalog of Exchanges: When Men (Don’t) Read my Words

• Catherine Pond: On a Clear Day: Notes on Identity

• Cassie Pruyn: Speaking into Silences

• Rita Mae Reese: Poetry in Late Capitalism

• Margaret Rhee: The Kimchi Poetry Machine Manifesta

• Rachel Richardson: To Go to Sea: Making a Place in a Male Literary Landscape

• Anna Ross: I Don’t Know How She Does It

• Purvi Shah: The Unbearable (White) Maleness of US Poetry: And How We can Enable a Structural Response to Literary Yellowface and Gender Inequity in Publishing

• Melissa R. Sipin: Tangential Divagation: Notes of an Immigrant Daughter

• Monika Sok: On Fear, Fearlessness, and Intergenerational Trauma

• Leigh Stein: Financial Confessions of a Feminist Organizer

• Bianca Stone: The House With Feet: The Dire Importance of Ruth Stone’s Bequest

• Sara Jane Stoner: Failing at Subjects: The Poetics of the Living Idea

• Erika Swyler: On Playing the Nice Woman

• Tess Taylor: But Do You Have to Work?

• Crissy Van Meter: The Publishing Process is Archaic

• Lina Ramona Vitkauskas: White Stockings: A Poetic Study of Mythical Freedom Fighters

• Anna Walewska: On Lack of Self-Confidence: Women’s Presence at Art Academies in Poland