It takes considerable courage
to be alone, not settling for fuckwittage.
-Moira Egan
I am the author of a poetry chapbook, I Will Meet You at the River, (as Suzannah Gilman), frequent traveler, and a licensed attorney who represented victims of domestic violence under a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Justice Office on Violence Against Women. My poetry, essays, fiction, and nonfiction have in such in such publications as The Florida Review, Pearl Magazine, Calyx Journal, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Pearl Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, Slow Trains, The Cafe Review, and The Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. I competed in flash fiction slams, winning every time. I won Literary Death Match on my 50th birthday. Twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize for poetry, I now concentrate on blogging for The Gloria Sirens and writing fiction. I have four children, four daughters-in-law, and four grandchildren. I live with my husband, the poet Billy Collins, in Florida.
It takes considerable courage
to be alone, not settling for fuckwittage.
-Moira Egan
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
– Audre Lorde
“Writing, regardless of the end result—whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed—means celebrating beauty in an often ugly world.”
― Mary Karr
“Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have a career. You have a life.”
― Cheryl Strayed
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott
Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
– Margaret Atwood
I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.
-Lady Gaga
“Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim.”
-Nora Ephron
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
-Virginia Woolf
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
-Alice Walker