COLLECTION AUTHORS
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Needville
Madeline Sharples
Papa’s Shoes is a work of
fiction about immigration
with a feminist and
historical bent. The Papa
character is determined
to take his family out
of their Polish shtetl to
better opportunities in
America. Along the way
three of his four sons
die, his wife defies his
aspirations, and his
daughter, Ava, conceived
as a replacement child, is
born. Ava grows up to be
smart, beautiful, and very
independent.
http://madelinesharples.com/
Sara M. Robinson
… Robinson’s small coal-mining
community is a hard, dark
world, and the people of
this world are memorialized
in their struggles, as
beautiful and rugged as the
mountains around them.
Both the townsfolk and the
Appalachian Mountains
“give birth, but it is rough,
not pretty — furious, helpless
& everlasting.” With these
poems Robinson asks to not
look away from the high price
extracted with each load of
coal, to see that “Truth is a
river that coils around trees &
stumps/clear as coal is black.”
— RITA SIMS QUILLEN, author of Wayland
and The Mad Farmer’s Wife
https://saramrobinson.com/