Desire: Women Write About Wanting

by Lisa Solod Warren

A captivating collection of essays, Desire delves headfirst into its subject matter and explores the complexity of desire with essays about the things women want, crave, lust after, and covet. An extraordinary group of writers tackle difficult and taboo subjects, from Debra Magpie Earling’s desire to hurt someone, to New York Times writer S. S. Fair’s less than diminishing sensual and sexual desire, despite her increasing age, to Julia Serano’s strong emotional impulse to be a woman before she decided to transition from male to female.Many of these essayists examine the feelings and experiences which surround the things they want but can’t-or shouldn’t-have. The reasons such desires are taboo are often personal and range from social conventions and religious teachings to more concrete laws and rules. Desire makes the private public and illuminates the rich and varied desires women have.

322 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 8, 2011

About the author

Literary Resume


BOOKS:

Desire: Women Write About Wanting, edited by Lisa Solod Warren, Seal Press, Fall 2007



PUBLICATIONS: Fiction

“A Case of You,” Meridian, Spring, 2007.

“Take Care,” literarymama.com, May 2007

“The Protective Order,” Penwomanship, 2005.

“If You Never Hear From Him, That Just Means He Didn’t Call,” Summer’s Love, Winter’s Discontent, Lonesome Traveller (sic) Publishing, 1999.

“Where We Live,” Lonzie’s Fried Chicken, A Journal of Accessible Southern Fiction and Poetry, Issue Two, Winter/Spring 1999.

“A Month in the Country,” An Inn Near Kyoto, Edited by Kathleen Coskran and C.W. Truesdale, New Rivers Press, 1998.

“The Visit,” The American Voice, No. 36, 1995

“Ain’t Got Wings,” Tales of the Heart, Spring, 1994.

“The Hat,” Good Stories, Number 16, June 1994 (Great Britain)

“Nightswimming,” Parting Gifts, Volume 7, Number 2, Winter 1994-95.

“Marriage: Year Thirty,” Housewife-Writer’s Forum, September-October 1993, Volume 6. #5.




PUBLICATIONS: Non-Fiction Essays

“Southern Jew,” Matzo Balls for Breakfast, the Free Press, 2004.

“My French Fetish,” France, A Love Story, Seal Press, August 2004.

Edward Gorey interview, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey, Karen Wilkin, editor, Harcourt, Inc., hardcover, 2001; paperback, 2002.

“Why I Live Here,” Brown Alumni Monthly, March/April 1999.

“Women in Heels,” Tales from a Small Planet, February 2001 (on-line magazine for expatriates), 2002.

“French with a Multicultural Accent,” International Herald Tribune, April 27, 2002.


RECENT JOURNALISM

“Mean Girls, The Next Generation” (cover story), Brain, Child magazine, Spring 2006


SCREENPLAY

“Fair Trade” screenplay, a finalist in the Screenplay Festival Contest, 2003.






Contest Awards and Mentions: Fiction




“A Case of You,” Runner up for the 2007 Editors’ Fiction Prize, Meridian,

Novel: Krenk semi- finalist in the Peter Taylor Prize for the Novel Prize, Tennessee Book Awards, 2006.

“A Case of You” received an Honorable Mention in the 2003 New Millennium Fiction Prize.

“Salt” received an Honorable Mention in the Writer’s Digest Fiction Contest, 2004.

My short story collection, “Take Care” was a finalist in the Elixir Short Fiction contest, 2004.

“The Blue Door” won an Honorable Mention in the Writers Works Travel Fiction Contest and was a finalist in the Spout Fiction Contest, both in 2004.

“Marriage: Year Thirty,” won second place in Housewife-Writer’s Forum fiction contest, 1993. That same year it received an Honorable Mention in the Hemingway Days Literary Contest.

“A Month in the Country,” received an Honorable Mention in the Iowa Woman Fiction Contest, 1993.

Novel: Night and Storm semi-finalist in the Pirate’s Alley Fiction Contest, 1993.




Fellowships

Twelve fellowships to the Virginia Center for The Creative Arts, Mt. St. Angelo, Sweet Briar, Virginia 1989-2004.