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
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
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