Scars: An Anthology

Scars: 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. Scars: An Anthology has been part of panels at Columbia University, The Arkansas Literary Festival, The Louisiana Book Festival, and elsewhere.

Author: Erin Wood
Publisher: Et Alia Press
Published: 07/14/2015
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780982818473

About the Author
Wood, Erin: - Erin Wood writes and edits in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her essay We Scar, We Heal, We Rise, was chosen as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2013. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Psychology Today, Ms. Magazine's blog, The Woven Tale Press, The Healing Muse, Tales from the South, and elsewhere.

This title is not returnable