She Writes Press

Melanie Smith knows from experience how grief and trauma can feel complex and immovable. She used that experience to fuel her research into the issues of trauma, loss, and finding happiness, which...

Approaching thirty and questioning both her career path and her future with her long-time boyfriend, jaded New York City Public Defender Liana Cohen gets a new client--magnetic, articulate, earnest...

Uprooted from her country, Esther, a British-born, Israeli young woman, ends up in in New York, pregnant and newly married to Steve, an American she barely knows, in the mid-'60s--and tries to...

A loss and coming-of-age story that follows young Barbara Bracht as she struggles to comprehend the sudden disappearance and death of her mother and cope with a blue-collar father intent upon erasing...

Grieving the loss of her husband to AIDS, a young widow and burned-out nurse steps away from the frontlines of the epidemic and returns to Cuba, the revolutionary island that transformed her life...

Raised in abject poverty, terrorized by a boarder who lived in the root cellar, a California career woman repressed the memories, condemning her to a life of melancholy and despair--until a powerful...

Karen Gershowitz is officially a travel addict--one with more than ninety countries under her belt. In these engaging stories, she brings readers along as her companions as she explores, laughs, and...

Weaving Myself Awake is an intimate inquiry into what is sacred. Covering the topics of longing, birth, grief, grace, seeing, wonder, sanctuary, beauty, empowerment, collaboration, mystery, and joy,...

Ursula comes to Minneapolis from Germany in 1947 hoping for a new start with her American GI husband--but the American dream proves more elusive than she imagined it to be.Author: Christine Gallagher...

When a middle-aged woman's husband is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, their secret lives collide head-on, revealing a tangled web of sex, lies, and DNA and forcing her to decide whose life...

Hendrika is "Daddy's little girl," but when Nazis occupy Amsterdam and her father is deported to a POW labor camp, she must bond with her mother--who joins the Resistance after her husband's...

After the stillbirth of her daughter, Lindsey Henke grapples with the unbearable grief of losing a child by turning to the only resource she has at her disposal: her training as a psychotherapist. As...

Nearing fifty and grieving the death of her husband, Judy Reeves sells everything, buys an around-the-world airline ticket, and sets off on a solo journey. Months of solitude and loneliness in...

A teenager struggles to live up to the values and ideals her grandfather inspired as she encounters prejudice, injustice, and racism. After two years in a German-American Internment Camp in Texas,...

There were 2,400 American casualties in an undeclared war in North Russia after the Armistice of 1918. Reports on this military expedition were suppressed by the British and US governments--but these...

When Sila, a beautiful Cherokee teenager, flees her abusive husband in the dead of winter, she finds herself knocking on the door of a mill office, desperate for work--and meets the handsome Charley...

Women who write face biases and deep-seeded conditioning that challenge their writing processes and present barriers to publication. Write On, Sisters! takes a critical look at how social and...

Forty-six-year-old Amy Daughters flies home to Houston for Thanksgiving--and is mysteriously hurled back through time to 1978, where she's forced to visit her childhood home, including her ten-year...