Femmeliterate is intended to be a portal, a sounding board, a community, and a home for literary feminists, feminist literature, the interests of the female-identified and gender-nonconforming, and the voices of feminists of all genders. It celebrates books by women, books about women, and anyone who loves and spends a lot of time thinking about books, though it can also embrace visual and virtual literatures when the occasion warrants. Femmeliterate’s feminism is predicated on the notion that equal constitutional, civil, and human rights for all ranges of the gender spectrum create a more moral, just, compassionate, and creative world for all humanity and benefits the larger world that holds us all.
Contributors
Misty
Misty is a fiction writer, medieval scholar, essayist, editor, freelancer, free-thinker, teacher, bibliophile, student, and mom. Her short story collection A Lesson in Manners won the Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for fiction and was published by Snake Nation Press. Her second short story collection The Necessaries was published by Paradisiac Publishing. She is co-editor of a collection of scholarly essays entitled Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth (Brill, 2017) as well as several other works of medieval scholarship. Her dissertation, Monstrous Women in Middle English Romance, won the D. Simon Evans Award for Medieval Studies and was published by Edwin Mellen Press. She was the 2017 recipient of the Great River Writer’s Retreat, recipient of the 2018 David R. Collins Literary Achievement Award, and recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Find more about her scholarship and fiction at mistyurban.net and her editing services at Madwriters.
Lauren
Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of Difficult Fruit (Peepal Tree Press, 2014). She holds an MFA in Poetry and a graduate certificate in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Cornell University, and an MA in English and Creative Writing from Iowa State University. Alleyne’s fiction, non-fiction, interviews, and poetry have been widely published in journals and anthologies such as Women’s Studies Quarterly, Guernica, The Caribbean Writer, Black Arts Quarterly, The Cimarron Review, Crab Orchard Review, Gathering Ground, and Growing Up Girl, among others. Her work has earned several honors and awards, most recently the Picador Guest Professorship in Literature at the University of Leipzig, Germany, a 2014 Iowa Arts Council Fellowship, and first place in the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Contest. Alleyne is a Cave Canem graduate and is originally from Trinidad and Tobago. She currently works at James Madison University as Assistant Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center and Associate Professor of English..
Teresa
Teresa LaBella
published her first contemporary romance novel Reservations in December 2013. Heartland, the second in the New Life in Love trilogy, came out in February 2015. The third installation, Belonging, was released in 2016 and Tales from Heartland, a collection of short stories based on the world these characters inhabit, is now available as an ebook. The Davenport native recently moved to Canada with her husband John and adopted Huskies. You can find more about recent publications at her website, storyteller30.com, follow her Facebook page, or find her on Twitter @teresa_labella.