Scars: An Anthology

by Erin Wood (Editor)

An Anthology examines the range and nuance of experience related to scars of the body. The collection assembles the writings of activists, academics, parents, patients, performance artists, physicians, poets, siblings, spouses, students, and writers. Through various genres and mediums--personal narratives, interviews, poems, academic essays, images, a review, and a performance script--contributors address self-mutilation, creating art, gender confirmation surgery, cancer, birth, brain injury, war, coming of age, pain, and love, all focusing on the central question of what it means to live with physical scars. Renowned contributors include photographer and SCAR Project founder David Jay, AWP Award winning author Jill Christman, Piedmont Laureate Scott Huler, physician/faminist activist/author Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, author Maurice Carlos Ruffin, comedian Kelli Dunham, disability scholar and performer Jim Ferris, Hudson Valley artist Lorrie Fredette, and many more. An Anthology has been part of panels at Columbia University, The Arkansas Literary Festival, The Louisiana Book Festival, and elsewhere.

Genres: Poetry, Essays, Nonfiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published July 14, 2015

About the author

Erin Wood is author of Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives (April, 2019). She is also editor of Untold Arkansas: An Anthology (2018) and editor of and a contributor to Scars: An Anthology (2015), which assembles forty contributions on scars of the body. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Catapult, Ms. Magazine’s Blog, Psychology Today, Entropy, Tales from the South, and elsewhere, and has been a notable in The Best American Essays and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is director of Et Alia Press—a small press for big voices—in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Reviews

[Liv · Rating 5 out of 5]

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