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WordSmith: Smithie Authors

Selection of books written by alumnae
 

Smithies have made their mark in literature. This list is by no means exhaustive, and many alums also have previous publications. If you have a book coming out soon and would like it to appear on the WordSmith list, please fill out our online form.

2021

Fiction

A Mother’s Promise
K.D. Alden (Karen Potter Moser ’89)
Forever, January 2021

The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Stephanie Dray ’93
Berkley Books, March 2021

Nonfiction

The Empathetic Workplace: 5 Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma On the Job
Katharine Manning ’96
HarperCollins Leadership, February 2021

Nothing Happened: A History
Susan A. Crane ’85
Stanford University Press, January 2021

The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather & Edith Lewis
Melissa J. Homestead ’85
Oxford University Press, March 2021

Nonfiction (continued)

Visions from My Travels: African Birds
Marian Herz ’75
Blurb, January 2021

Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology
Jess Zimmerman (Jess Henig Zimmerman ’01)
Beacon Press, March 2021

Poetry

Viable: Poems and Apologies
Chloe Yelena Miller ’98
Lily Poetry Review Books, February 2021

Children/Young Adult

I Do Not Like Yolanda
Zoey Abbott ’96
Tundra Books, March 2021

Middletown
Sarah Moon ’04
Levine Querido, April 2021

2020

Fiction

The Circus Rose
Betsy Cornwell ’10
Clarion Books, June 2020

The Fog Ladies: Family Matters
Susan McCormick (Susan Jacobs McCormick ’84)
The Wild Rose Press, October 2020

The Fox Demon’s Kiss
Keri Moore ’09
Tethys Night Sky Publishing, November 2020

Friends and Strangers
J. Courtney Sullivan ’03
Knopf, June 2020

Full Bloom: A Novel of Food, Family, and Freaking Out
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Story Plant, June 2020

Kickoff: A Lainie Lovett Mystery
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Judith Arnold, January 2020

Known By Heart: Collected Stories
Ellen Prentiss Campbell (Ellen Campbell Pskowski ’75)
Apprentice House Press, May 2020

The Paris Affair: A Theresa Schurman Mystery
Susanne Dunlap ’76
Susanne Dunlap, September 2020

Paris Never Leaves You
Ellen Feldman ’63
St. Martin’s Griffin, August 2020

Perfectly Famous
Emily Liebert (Emily Einhorn Liebert ’98)
Gallery Books, June 2020

Promises at Indigo Bay
Ellyn Oaksmith ’85
Bookouture, October 2020

Snowed Under
Mary Feliz (Mary Cooper Feliz ’80)
Lyrical Press, June 2020

Summer in Gettysburg
Evelyn Landane (Amy Allen Woodis ’75)
Evelyn Landane, June 2020

Nonfiction

American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation
Kirsten Fischer ’85
University of Pennsylvania Press, December 2020

Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir
Colin Dayan ’71
Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2020

Behind the Times: Virginia Woolf in Late-Victorian Contexts
Mary Jean Corbett ’84
Cornell University Press, November 2020

The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Marc Zvi Brettler
HarperOne, October 2020

(Con)textos femeninos: Antología de escritoras españolas
Elizabeth Smith Rousselle (Elizabeth Smith Widerquist '91) and Erika M. Sutherland, eds.
Peter Lang, June 2020

The Death of Idealism: Development and Anti-Politics in the Peace Corps
Meghan Elizabeth Kallman ’05
Columbia University Press, April 2020

Dispute System Design: Preventing, Managing, and Resolving Conflict
Lisa Blomgren Amsler ’76, Janet K. Martinez and Stephanie E. Smith
Stanford University Press, June 2020

Dr. Anne Good Health at Hand: Your Own Lifelong Way to Eat, Exercise and Meditate
Anne Seifert, MA ’65
Varnes Publishers, August 2020

Eldercare as Art and Ministry
Irene V. Jackson-Brown, MAT ’70
Church Publishing Company, October 2020

Eugène-Louis Charvot
Susan M. Gallo ’76
GILES, January 2020

Exploring the Role of the School Principal in Predominantly White Middle Schools: School Leadership to Promote Multicultural Understanding
Jacquelynne Anne Boivin (Jacquelynne Chase Boivin ’14)
Routledge, November 2020

Growing Old: Notes on Aging with Something Like Grace
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ’53
HarperOne, April 2020

The Hothouse Flower: Nurturing Women in the Victorian Conservatory
Margaret Flanders Darby ’67
Edward Everett Root Publishers, September 2020

How to Free Your Inner Mathematician: Notes on Mathematics and Life
Susan D’Agostino, MAT ’98
Oxford University Press, May 2020

Jesus for Everyone: Not Just Christians
Amy-Jill Levine ’78
HarperCollins, March 2020

The Ladies’ Village Improvement Society Cookbook: Eating and Entertaining in East Hampton
Florence Fabricant (Florence Gertner Fabricant ’58)
Rizzoli, April 2020

Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution
Sarah L. Swedberg ’88
Lexington Books, December 2020

The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals
Katja M. Guenther ’97
Stanford University Press, August 2020

Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood
Christa Parravani ’99
Henry Holt and Co., November 2020

Mademoiselle de Malepeire
Fanny Reybaud; translated by Barbara Basbanes Richter ’03
Bancroft Press, October 2020

The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity: What Christianity Cost the Jews
Ross Shepard Kraemer ’70
Oxford University Press, March 2020

Modern Artifacts
Michelle Elligott ’93 and Tod Lippy
Esopus Books, June 2020

Nonfiction (continued)

My Separate Worlds: Daughter of the Holocaust and Evangelical Christianity
Ingrid Alpern (Ingrid Yollick Alpern ’69)
Ingrid Alpern, June 2020

My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora
Katherine Whitney and Leila Emery ’02, eds.
University of Texas Press, March 2020

My Trans Parent: A User Guide for When Your Parent Transitions
Heather Bryant ’00
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, May 2020

On the Rocks: A Storyteller’s Memoir
Jane Hughes Gignoux ’52
iUniverse, January 2020

Picturing Resistance: Moments and Movements of Social Change from the 1950s to Today
Melanie Hastings Light ’80 and Ken Light
Ted Speed Press, October 2020

Queering Italian Media
Sole Anatrone ’04 and Julia Heim, eds.
Lexington Books, January 2020

Retirement by Design: A Guided Workbook for Creating a Happy and Purposeful Future
Ida O. Abbott (Ida Offenbach Abbott ’69)
Ulysses Press, March 2020

The Routledge Guidebook to Paine’s Rights of Man
Frances Anne Chiu ’85
Routledge, April 2020

The Sensing Body in the Visual Arts: Making and Experiencing Sculpture
Rosalyn Driscoll ’67
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, September 2020

Sermon on the Mount: A Beginner’s Guide to the Kingdom of Heaven
Amy-Jill Levine ’78
Abingdon Press, August 2020

Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842
Susan E. Schopp ’71
Hong Kong University Press, November 2020

Stolen Song: How the Troubadours Became French
Eliza Zingesser ’05
Cornell University Press, March 2020

Treating Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Clinician’s Guide
Charlynn Small and Mazella Fuller, MSW ’95, eds.
Routledge, July 2020

Ultimate Puppy Training for Kids: A Step-by-Step Guide for Exercises and Tricks
Mark Van Wye, MFA ’01
Rockridge Press, June 2020

Unpacked: An Old Soul’s Guide to the Art of Relocation
Christine Kraft (Christine Fallon Kraft ’88)
Independently published, October 2020

The Vegucated Family Table: Irresistible Vegan Recipes and Proven Tips for Feeding Plant-Powered Babies, Toddlers, and Kids
Marisa Miller Wolfson ’98 and Laura Delhauer
Ten Speed Press, August 2020

Visions from My Travels: Ethiopia
Marian Herz ’75
Blurb, November 2020

Visions from My Travels: Penguins
Marian Herz ’75
Blurb, November 2020

Visions from My Travels: People
Marian Herz ’75
Blurb, December 2020

Wood Gaylor and American Modernism, 1913–1936
Andrea Rosen ’09
Fleming Museum of Art, January 2020

Young Mongols: Forging Democracy in the Wild, Wild East
Aubrey Menarndt ’08
Penguin Random House SEA, March 2020

Poetry

Awakening
Stephanie Shafran ’72
Daffodil Press, April 2020

Land’s End
Gail Mazur (Gail Beckwith Mazur ’59)
The University of Chicago Press, September 2020

Write It!: 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire
Jessica Jacobs ’02 and Nickole Brown
Spruce Books, October 2020

Children/Young Adult

Cub
Cynthia L. Copeland ’82
Algonquin Young Readers, January 2020

Fighting Words
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley ’89
Dial Books, August 2020

The Magnificent Makers #1: How to Test a Friendship
Theanne Griffith ’08; illustrated by Reggie Brown
Random House Children’s Books, May 2020

The Magnificent Makers #2: Brain Trouble
Theanne Griffith ’08; illustrated by Reggie Brown
Random House Children’s Books, May 2020

The Magnificent Makers #3: Riding Sound Waves
Theanne Griffith ’08; illustrated by Reggie Brown
Random House Children’s Books, September 2020

Over the Moon
James Proimos; illustrated by Zoey Abbott ’96
Chronicle Books, March 2020

Protecting You… Protecting Me
Susan Poage and Dina Rosen (Dina Bloom Rosen ’88); illustrated by Benjamin Chew and Dina Rosen (Dina Bloom Rosen ’88)
Independently published, June 2020

This Is What I Know About Art
Kimberly Drew ’12; illustrated by Ashley Lukashevsky
Penguin Random House, June 2020

What Ruth the Cat Knows
Kathryn Mishkin '09
BookBaby, November 2020

Wherever I Go
Mary Wagley Copp ’80; illustrated by Munir D. Mohammed
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, April 2020

Who Was Ida B. Wells?
Sarah Fabiny ’83; illustrated by Ted Hammond
Penguin Workshop, June 2020

2019

Fiction

Cliff Hanger
Mary Feliz (Mary Cooper Feliz ’80)
Lyrical Underground, July 2019

The Codebook Murders
Leslie Nagel (Leslie Simms Nagel ’83)
Random House, May 2019

Copper and Goldie: 13 Tails of Mystery and Suspense in Hawaii
Rosemary Mild (Rosemary Pollack Mild ’57) and Larry Mild
Magic Island Literary Works, August 2019

The Emancipation of Emily Rosenbloom
Elinor Gale ’62
Blue Light Press, August 2019

The Fog Ladies
Susan McCormick (Susan Jacobs McCormick ’84)
The Wild Rose Press, October 2019

The Line Between
Tosca Lee ’92
Howard Books, January 2019

Listen to the Wind
Susanne Dunlap ’76
Bellastoria Press, April 2019

Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
Sylvia Plath ’55
Harper Perennial, January 2019

The Nine: A Novel
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg ’87
She Writes Press, August 2019

A Single Light
Tosca Lee ’92
Howard Books, September 2019

The Starless Sea
Erin Morgenstern ’00
Doubleday, November 2019

Thorn
Anna Burke ’12
Bywater Books, January 2019

The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus
Alanna McFall ’12
Atthis Arts, June 2019

Nonfiction

Actualize! A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating the Life You Want
Jessica S. Gifford, MSW ’00
CreateSpace, May 2019

Against My Father’s Will: A Memoir
Jane Morgan Barry ’68
Back Shore Publishing, November 2019

Battling Bella: The Protest Politics of Bella Abzug
Leandra Ruth Zarnow ’01
Harvard University Press, November 2019

The Bouvier Affair: A True Story
Alexandra Bregman ’10
Ingram, April 2019

Brain Candy: A Memoir
Deirdre Timmons (Deirdre Allen Timmons ’88)
Deirdre Timmons, February 2019

Celibacy, a Love Story: Memoir of a Catholic Priest’s Daughter
Mimi Bull (Mimi Foyette Bull ’58)
Bauhan Publishing, September 2019

Central Park’s Adventure-Style Playgrounds: Renewal of a Midcentury Legacy
Marie Warsh ’97
LSU Press, November 2019

The Coffeehouse Resistance: Brewing Hope in Desperate Times
Sarina Prabasi ’95
Green Writers Press, April 2019

The Color of My Mind: Mental Health Narratives from People of Color
Dior Vargas ’09
Reclamation Press, November 2019

Companion to the Works of Hermann Broch
Graham Bartram, Sarah McGaughey ’97 and Galin Tihanov, eds.
Camden House, April 2019

Eightysomethings: A Practical Guide to Letting Go, Aging Well, and Finding Unexpected Happiness
Katharine Esty (Katharine Cole Esty ’56)
Skyhorse Publishing, September 2019

Explorations of a Mind-Traveling Sociologist
Renée C. Fox ’49
Anthem Press, November 2019

The Fourth String: A Memoir of Sensei and Me
Janet Pocorobba ’89
Stone Bridge Press, March 2019

Gendered Citizenship: Understanding Gendered Violence in Democratic India
Natasha Behl ’04
Oxford University Press, August 2019

Genetic Consultations in the Newborn
Robin D. Clark ’75 and Cynthia J. Curry
Oxford University Press, February 2019

Good Queen Anne: Appraising the Life and Reign of the Last Stuart Monarch
Judith Lissauer Cromwell ’57
McFarland, April 2019

How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat
Farah Pandith ’90
Custom House, March 2019

Nonfiction (continued)

Hunger: A Memoir
Marian Del Vecchio (Marian Seidner Del Vecchio ’57)
Leap Year Press, February 2019

I Never Called It Rape—Updated Edition: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape
Robin Warshaw; preface by Gloria Steinem ’56
Harper Perennial, February 2019

Incredible Vegan Ice Cream: Decadent, All-Natural Flavors Made with Coconut Milk
Deena Jalal ’02
Page Street Publishing Co., June 2019

Julia Child: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
Introduction by Helen Rosner ’04
Melville House, March 2019

Medical Parenting: How to Navigate Health, Wellness and the Medical System with Your Child
Jacqueline Jones ’80
Morgan James Publishing, November 2019

Pickin’ Cotton on the Way to Church: The Life and Work of Father Boniface Hardin, OSB
Nancy Van Note Chism, MA ’71
Indiana Historical Society Press, July 2019

A Pocket Guide to Clinical Midwifery: The Efficient Midwife, Second Edition
Lauren A. Dutton ’04, Jessica E. Densmore ’00 and Meredith B. Turner
Jones & Bartlett Learning, May 2019

Pretty Posies, Powerful Healing: An Herbal Primer
Maria Antonia Viteri; illustrated by Louise Jones McPhillips ’76 et al.
Birmingham Historical Society, October 2019

Puppy Training in 7 Easy Steps: Everything You Need to Know to Raise the Perfect Dog
Mark Van Wye, MFA ’01
Rockridge Press, April 2019

Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine
Laurie Powers AC ’00
McFarland Books, September 2019

Reflections on Long-Term Relational Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
Susan A. Lord, MSW ’79, ed.
Routledge, March 2019

Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support
Damon M. Constantinides, Shannon L. Sennott, MSW ’08, and Davis Chandler
Routledge, March 2019

Surprised by Self: Escaping the Cultural Cocoon in Favor of Fluttering and Flying Free
Rosalie Allen Taylor (Rosalie Taylor Howlett ’46) CreateSpace, October 2019

Three Sheets to the Wind: The Nautical Origins of Everyday Expressions
Cynthia Barrett ’78
Lyons Press, May 2019

The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Rebellion
Gloria Steinem ’56
Random House, October 2019

Wading Right In: Discovering the Nature of Wetlands
Catherine Owen Koning and Sharon M. Ashworth ’87
University of Chicago Press, August 2019

Your White Coat is Waiting: Vital Advice for Pre-Meds
Kirsten E. Kirby ’02 and William M. Kirby
Kirby Career Advising, May 2019

Poetry

The Heart’s Necessities: Life in Poetry
Jane Tyson Clement ’39 with Becca Stevens
Plough Publishing House, April 2019

Pentimento
Alysse Kathleen McCanna ’07
Gold Line Press, March 2019

Take Me With You, Wherever You’re Going
Jessica Jacobs ’02
Four Way Books, March 2019

Children/Young Adult

The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons
Natascha Biebow ’93; illustrated by Steven Salerno
HMH Books for Young Readers, March 2019

The Little Green Girl
Lisa Anchin ’04
Dial Books for Young Readers, April 2019

Sky Without Stars
Jessica Brody ’01 and Joanne Rendell
Simon Pulse, March 2019

The Sun Shines Everywhere
Mary Ann Hoberman (Mary Ann Freedman Hoberman ’51); illustrated by Luciano Lozano
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, March 2019

Who Is My Neighbor?
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; illustrated by Denise Turu
Flyaway Books, January 2019

Who’s Hiding In This Book?: Meet 10 Famous Authors
Sheila Cordner ’03; illustrated by Daniel Fiore
Pierce Press / Daytripper Books, November 2019

2018

Fiction

The Advice Column Murders: The Oakwood Mystery Series
Leslie Nagel (Leslie Simms Nagel ’83)
Penguin Random House; April 2018

Compass Rose
Anna Burke ’12
Bywater Books; July 2018

Consumed
J. R. Ward (Jessica Bird ’91)
Gallery Books; October 2018

Disorderly Conduct: A Maggie McDonald Mystery
Mary Feliz (Mary Cooper Feliz ’80)
Lyrical Underground; July 2018

The Heart of an Artichoke: A Tale of Betrayal
Katie Butterworth (Katharine Macomber Butterworth 1922)
Saugus Books; April 2018

Honolulu Heat: Between the Mountains and the Great Sea
Rosemary Mild (Rosemary Pollack Mild ’57) and Larry Mild
Magic Island Literary Works; August 2018

Idyll Hands: A Thomas Lynch Novel
Stephanie Gayle ’97
Seventh Street Books; September 2018

Kick the Bucket: A Lainie Lovett Mystery
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Bellastoria Press; February 2018

Kickdown
Rebecca Clarren ’97
Arcade Publishing; September 2018

Landslide
Melissa Leet (Melissa Chamberlain Leet '86)
Antrim House; March 2018

Love and Sabotage
Martha Tolles ’43 (Martha Gregory Tolles ’43)
Speaking Volumes; November 2018

Rescue Me: The Magic Jukebox, Book Eight
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Amazon Digital Services; May 2018

Sleeping With the Monster
Anya Martin ’85
Lethe Press; November 2018

The Universe Between Us
Jane C. Esther (Jess Wallis ’05)
Bold Strokes Books; January 2018

Where Do They All Come From?
Patty Friedmann ’68
Sartoris Literary Group; May 2018

Wicked and the Wallflower: The Bareknuckle Bastards Book I
Sarah MacLean (Sarah Trabucchi ’00)
Avon Books; June 2018

Nonfiction

After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America’s Greatest Poet
Julie Dobrow ’81
W. W. Norton & Company; October 2018

Bitterroot: The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis
Patricia Tyson Stroud (Patricia Peterson McCurdy ’55)
University of Pennsylvania Press; March 2018

A Blueprint for War: FDR and the Hundred Days that Mobilized America
Susan Dunn ’66
Yale University Press; April 2018

Booze & Vinyl: A Spirited Guide to Great Music and Mixed Drinks
André Darlington and Tenaya Darlington ’94
Running Press; April 2018

Breaking Glass—Broken Barriers: Voyage of an Entrepreneurial Spirit: A Memoir
Joyce Verplank Hatton ’54
Archway Publishing; September 2018

Calgary through the Eyes of Writers
Shaun Hunter ’84
Rocky Mountain Books; November 2018

Chaplain: The World War II Letters of Army Air Corp Chaplain Paschal Dupuy Fowlkes
Rives Fowlkes Carroll ’65, ed.
Politics and Prose; May 2018

Chimerism: A Clinical Guide
Kayla Sheets ’00
Springer; June 2018

Counseling for Artists, Performers, and Other Creative Individuals: A Guide for Clinicians
Olga E. Gonithellis ’06
Routledge; May 2018

The Crusade for Forgotten Souls: Reforming Minnesota’s Mental Institutions, 1946–1954
Susan Bartlett Foote ’67
University of Minnesota Press; April 2018

Descent into Love: My Journey with Mom through Dementia
Ellie Schellhammer Goldberg ’71
Kindle Direct Publishing; November 2018

Drawing for the Absolute and Utter Beginner, Revised
Claire Watson Garcia ’67
Watson-Guptill; July 2018

Entering the Passion of Jesus: A Beginner’s Guide to Holy Week
Amy-Jill Levine ’78
Abingdon Press; December 2018

Ethics, Politics, and Whistleblowing in Engineering
Nicholas Sakellariou and Rania Milleron ’92, eds.
CRC Press; October 2018

An Extra Mile: A Story of Embracing God’s Call
Sharon Garlough Brown ’91
InterVarsity Press; February 2018

Fifty Million Rising: The New Generation of Working Women Transforming the Muslim World
Saadia Zahidi ’02
Nation Books; January 2018

Follow the Leader: Believe in Yourself. Craft Your Future
Stephanie Mickle ’94
13th & Joan; July 2018

Food Sovereignty the Navajo Way: Cooking with Tall Woman
Charlotte J. Frisbie (Charlotte Johnson Frisbie ’62)
University of New Mexico Press; April 2018

Food Wisdom for Women: Aging With Energy, Vitality, Health
Donna P. Feldman (Donna Psiaki Feldman ’73)
CreateSpace; March 2018

48 Peaks: Hiking and Healing in the White Mountains
Cheryl Suchors ’72
She Writes Press; September 2018

Four Weeks to Wellness: Evidence-Based Exercises to Cultivate Health and Happiness in Your Life
Jessica S. Gifford, MSW ’00
CreateSpace; March 2018

From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945
Anne E. Parsons ’00
The University of North Carolina Press; October 2018

Glorious Mountain Days: The 1902 Hike That Helped Save the White Mountains
Allison W. Bell ’79 and Maida Goodwin ’83
Bondcliff Books; December 2018

Godspeed: A Memoir
Casey Legler ’07
Atria Books; July 2018

The Gospel of Luke (New Cambridge Bible Commentary)
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Ben Witherington III
Cambridge University Press; June 2018

The Gothic Romance Wave: A Critical History of the Mass Market Novels, 1960–1993
Lori A. Paige ’87
McFarland Publishing; August 2018

A Gut Feeling: Conquer Your Sweet Tooth by Tuning Into Your Microbiome
Heather Anne Wise ’08
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; September 2018

The Hidden Life of Life: A Walk Through the Reaches of Time
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ’53
Penn State Press; March 2018

Nonfiction (continued)

How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry
Erno Munkácsi; edited by Nina Munk ’88
McGill-Queen’s University Press; October 2018

How It Happened: The 2016 Presidential Campaign in Jest and Verse
Erika S. Fine ’77
Poet Pundit Press; January 2018

How to Become a Voice Over Artist: Spiritual Keys to Success
Hillary Hawkins
Hillary Hawkins Production; May 2018

Jam Session: A Fruit-Preserving Handbook
Joyce Goldstein (Joyce Esersky Goldstein ’56)
Lorena Jones Books; June 2018

Living Beneath the Colorado Peaks: The Story of Knapp Ranch 
Sarah Chase Shaw ’90
The Knapp Press; September 2018

Lunar Flower Priestess: Ritual Magic & Healing Wisdom for the Sacred Feminine Spirit 
Hannah Corbett ’00
BookBaby; April 2018

Not for the Faint of Heart: Lessons in Courage, Power, and Persistence
Wendy R. Sherman ’71
PublicAffairs; September 2018

100 Days, 100 Books: Courage and Community in Books for Young People 
Elizabeth (Rusty) True Browder ’66
Printed on Paige; January 2018

Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions
Christine Caldwell and Lucia Bennett Leighton ’12, eds.
North Atlantic Books; March 2018

Pop Art and Popular Music: Jukebox Modernism
Melissa L. Mednicov ’02
Routledge; June 2018

Ray Johnson: Selective Inheritance
Kate Dempsey Martineau ’04
University of California Press; June 2018

Remembering the Present: Mindfulness in Buddhist Asia
J. L. Cassaniti (Julia Cassaniti '99)
Cornell University Press; April 2018

René d’Harnoncourt and the Art of Installation
Michelle Elligott ’93
The Museum of Modern Art; October 2018

Save the Cat! Writes a Novel: The Last Book On Novel Writing You’ll Ever Need
Jessica Brody ’01
Ten Speed Press; October 2018

Saving Sin City: William Travers Jerome, Stanford White, and the Original Crime of the Century
Mary Cummings (Mary Johnson Cummings ’61)
Pegasus Books; May 2018

Sculpture in Gotham: Art and Urban Renewal in New York City
Michele H. Bogart ’74
Reaktion Books; July 2018

A Smolny Album: Glimpses into Life at the Imperial Educational Society of Noble Maidens
Nancy Kovaleff Baker ’69, ed.
Academic Studies Press; December 2018

Soul Dog: A Journey into the Spiritual Life of Animals
Elena Mannes ’65
Bear & Company; November 2018

Tales from an Uncertain World: What Other Assorted Disasters Can Teach Us About Climate Change
L. S. Gardiner (Lisa Gardiner ’95)
University Of Iowa Press; March 2018

Tango Lessons
Meghan Flaherty ’05
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; June 2018

You Can Have It!: More Than 125 Decadent Diabetes-Friendly Recipes
Devin Alexander (Devin Simone Alexander ’93)
American Diabetes Association; March 2018

Poetry

A Collection of Poetry
Wan Kyun Rha Kim ’60; illustrated by Clemente Orozco Farias
Impronta Casa Editora; 2018

Compass Roads: Poems About the Pioneer Valley
Jane Yolen ’60, ed.
Levellers Press; 2018

Eating Sardines at Midnight
Linda Chivian Levitz ’60
Daniel & Daniel Publishers; March 2018

The Eyes Have It
Anne Harding Woodworth ’65
Turning Point; February 2018

Fragments of You
Hannah Rousselot ’14
Kelsay Books; December 2018

How It Happens
Joyce E. Young ’75
Nomadic Press; September 2018

If Trash Could Talk: Poems, Stories, and Musings
Jacquelyn A. Ottman ’77
CreateSpace; May 2018

Memory & Complicity: Poems
Eve Hoffman (Eve Parker Hoffman ’64)
Mercer University Press; May 2018

Children/Young Adult

Better You Than Me
Jessica Brody ’01
Delacorte Press; November 2018

Dr. Coo and the Pigeon Protest
Sarah Hampson ’79; illustrated by Kass Reich
Kids Can Press; April 2018

Finn’s Feather
Rachel Noble; illustrated by Zoey Abbott Wagner ’96
Enchanted Lion Books; May 2018

The Forest Queen
Betsy Cornwell ’10
Clarion Books; August 2018

The Geography of Lost Things
Jessica Brody ’01
Simon Pulse; October 2018

Granny Can’t Remember Me: A Children’s Book About Alzheimer’s
Susan McCormick (Susan Jacobs McCormick ’84); illustrated by Timur Deberdeev
Carroll Press; September 2018

It Should Have Been You
Lynn Slaughter ’69
Page Street Kids; January 2018

Lifeboat 12
Susan Hood ’76
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers; September 2018

The Marvelous Mustard Seed
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; illustrated by Margaux Meganck
Flyaway Books; April 2018

Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
Susan Hood ’76
HarperCollins; January 2018

Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice
Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins (Marietta Harvey Collins ’79, MSW ’83) and Ann Hazzard; illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
Magination Press; April 2018

The Thank You Book
Mary Lyn Ray ’68; illustrated by Stephanie Graegin
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers; September 2018

The Turtle Ship
Helena Ku Rhee; illustrated by Colleen Kong-Savage ’94
Shen’s Books; June 2018

2017

Fiction

The Battle for the Black Fen
Annis Pratt (Annis Vilas Pratt ’58)
Moon Willow Press

Chasing Nirvana
Ellyn Oaksmith ’85
CreateSpace

The Chosen: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
J. R. Ward (Jessica Bird ’91)
Ballantine Books

Court of Twilight
Mareth Griffith ’06
Parvus Press

The Day of the Duchess (Scandal & Scoundrel, Book 3)
Sarah MacLean (Sarah Trabucchi ’00)
Avon Books

Dead Storage: A Maggie McDonald Mystery
Mary Feliz (Mary Cooper Feliz ’80)
Lyrical Underground

Devil’s Cut: A Bourbon Kings Novel
J. R. Ward (Jessica Bird ’91)
Ballantine Books

Dropkick: A Lainie Lovett Mystery
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Clio Books

Eden
Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg ’87
She Writes Press

I Brake for Moose and Other Stories
Geeta Kothari ’84
Braddock Avenue Books

Idyll Fears: A Thomas Lynch Novel
Stephanie Gayle ’97
Seventh Street Books

Kickback: A Lainie Lovett Mystery
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Clio Books

Less Than a Year
Peggy Thomas (Margaret Standish Thomas ’64)
Stablegate

The Moral Quandary of Heels 
Kathleen Helen Levey ’82
Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing

On Anzio Beach
Elizabeth Alexander ’78
Ravenna Press

An Organized Panic
Patty Friedmann ’68
Old Stone Press

The Right Kind of Rogue (Playful Brides, Book 8)
Valerie Bowman ’96
St. Martin’s Paperbacks

Saints for All Occasions
J. Courtney Sullivan ’03
Knopf

Scheduled to Death: A Maggie McDonald Mystery
Mary Feliz (Mary Cooper Feliz ’80)
Lyrical Underground

Skating on the Vertical
Jan English Leary ’72
Fomite

Still Kicking: A Lainie Lovett Mystery
Judith Arnold (Barbara Keiler ’74)
Clio Books

To Lay to Rest Our Ghosts
Caitlin Hamilton Summie ’90
Fomite

The Velveteen Daughter
Laurel Davis Huber ’73
She Writes Press

Wild Nights: A Novel
Ruth Wolff ’53
Xlibris

Will You Ever Change?
Aurélie Valognes; translated from the French by Wendeline A. Hardenberg (Wendy Hardenberg ’05)
AmazonCrossing

Nonfiction

Aging with Wisdom: Reflections, Stories and Teachings
Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle ’59
Monkfish Book Publishing

The Art of the Sponge: A Handbook for Hosts and Houseguests
Christina Griffin (Christina O’Dunne Griffin ’66)
CreateSpace

Authoritarian Legality: Law, Workers and the State in Contemporary China
Mary Gallagher ’91
Cambridge University Press

Butterfly Politics
Catharine A. MacKinnon ’69
Belknap Press

Creative Collaborations through Inclusive Theatre and Community Based Learning: Students in Transition
Lisa A. Kramer ’90 and Judy Freedman Fask MEd ’81
Palgrave Macmillan

Dig Where You Are: How One Person’s Efforts Can Save a Life, Empower a Community and Create Meaningful Change in the World
Nan Alexander Doyal ’85
Casper Press

Discovery
Robert Hatfield Ellsworth; edited by Julia Meech ’63 and Jane Oliver
Japanese Art Society of America

Do You Feel as Old as You Are? Conversations with my Granddaughter
Anne Simpson (Anne Dodge Simpson ’57)
Huff Publishing Associates

Drink: A Four Year Survival Guide
Amanda Orr ’90
MaGu Publishing

Entrepreneurial You: Monetize Your Expertise, Create Multiple Income Streams, and Thrive
Dorie Clark ’97
Harvard Business Review Press

Feminist Views from Somewhere: Post-Jungian Themes in Feminist Theory
Leslie Gardner (Leslie Gardner Pantucci ’70) and Frances Gray, eds.
Routledge

Finding Feminism: Millennial Activists and the Stalled Gender Revolution
Alison Dahl Crossley ’02
NYU Press

Friendship Matters: Memoir, Life Lessons, Laughter
Sanda Neshin Bernstein ’69 and Wendy Satin Rapaport
CreateSpace

A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning
Cathy Curtis (Cathy Schwartz Curtis ’72)
Oxford University Press

A History of Medicine in 50 Discoveries
Marguerite Vigliani ’70 and Gale Eaton ’69
Tilbury House Publishers

Honor the Past: A History of the First Congregational Church of Greenwich, 1965–2015
Pat Fulkerson Larrabee ’66
Blurb

How Places Make Us: Novel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities
Japonica Brown-Saracino ’99
University of Chicago Press

Immaculate Assumptions: All the Stuff You Heard About the Bible That Isn’t True
Cornelia Scott Cree ’57
BookBaby

The Jewish Annotated New Testament: Second Edition
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds.
Oxford University Press

Julia Morgan’s Berkeley City Club: The Story of a Building
Sarah Gill ’59
Sarah Gill

Libertarianism: Pro and Con
George R. Ingham MSW ’89
CreateSpace

Nonfiction (continued)

Life Among the Scorpions: Memoirs of a Woman in Indian Politics
Jaya Jaitly (Jaya Chettur Jaitly ’63)
Rupa

The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race
Neda Maghbouleh ’04
Stanford University Press

Making the Mark: Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting
Miroslava Prazak ’79
Ohio University Press

Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774–1839
Elisabeth A. Fraser ’84
Penn State University Press

Memories and Miracles: Stories and Reflections on Russians from an American Missionary
Mary Theresa Webb (Terry Williams Webb ’54)
CreateSpace

Messages from God: An Illuminated Devotional
Kathleen Schwab (Kathleen Feeley Schwab ’89); photography by Therese Kay ’91
Vervanté

Modern Jewish Baker: Challah, Babka, Bagels & More
Shannon Sarna (Shannon Goldberg Sarna ’04)
Countryman Press

The Monastery and the Microscope: Conversations with the Dalai Lama on Mind, Mindfulness, and the Nature of Reality
Wendy Hasenkamp, ed., with Janna R. White ’07
Yale University Press

Monologues and Duologues from the Plays of Ruth Wolff 
Ruth Wolff ’53
Xlibris

Mysterious Builder of Seattle Landmarks: Searching for My Father
Paula Pederson (Paula Holden Palmer ’55)
VIE Communication

Ottman & Company: One Daughter Remembers
Jacquelyn A. Ottman ’77
CreateSpace

Our Emily Dickinsons: American Women Poets and the Intimacies of Difference
Vivian R. Pollak (Vivian Rogosa Pollak ’59)
University of Pennsylvania Press

Portland Cooks: Recipes from the City’s Best Restaurants and Bars
Danielle Centoni ’97
Figure 1 Publishing

Really Important Stuff My Cat Has Taught Me
Cynthia L. Copeland ’82
Workman

Renoir: An Intimate Biography
Barbara Ehrlich White ’58
Thames & Hudson

Rock & Roll at Any Age: A Rebellious Look at Life, Health & Spiritual Wisdom from the Sassy Sage
Joan Lubar (Joan Lubar-Alvarez ’64)
Love Your Life Publishing

Sharing Books, Talking Science: Exploring Scientific Concepts with Children’s Literature
Valerie Bang-Jensen (Valerie Fischer Bang-Jensen ’77) and Mark Lubkowitz
Heinemann

Sport of a Lifetime: Enduring Personal Stories From Tennis
Judy Aydelott (Judy Agor Aydelott ’63)
New Chapter Press

Startups Demystified: Founders Share Strategies, Secrets, and Lessons Learned
Barbara Hou ’03
CoffeeCupPress

The Stories of Science: Integrating Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening into Science Instruction, 6–12
Janet MacNeil, Mark Goldner and Melissa London ’91
Heinemann

Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind
Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas ’53; forward by Vicki Constantine Croke
Chelsea Green Publishing

Ten Dollars to Hate: The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan
Patricia Bernstein (Patricia Hoffman Bernstein ’66)
Texas A&M University Press

Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies
Ann Hornaday ’82
Basic Books

The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention
Abigail T. Brooks ’93
New York University Press

Trigger Warnings: History, Theory, Context
Emily J. M. Knox ’98, ed.
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Where to Find Peace & Quiet in London
Elizabeth von Pier (Elizabeth Yanginski von Pier ’66)
CreateSpace

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Kory Stamper (Kory Behny Stamper ’96)
Pantheon

The World Is Your Oracle: Divinatory Practices for Tapping Your Inner Wisdom and Getting the Answers You Need
Nancy Vedder-Shults ’69
Fair Winds Press

Poetry

Air-breathing Life
Abigail Warren (Abigail Warren Dolinger AC ’86)
Finishing Line Press

Before the Vote After
Jane Yolen '60
Levellers Press

Bird Flying through the Banquet
Judy Kronenfeld (Judy Zahler Kronenfeld ’64)
FutureCycle Press

Bottles and Bones
Ayesha Chatterjee (Ayesha Bhattacharjee Chatterjee ’91)
Bayeux Arts

chasing dragonflies: I grow tired of waiting
Yvonne Garrett ’85 and Mary Ellen Sanger
CreateSpace

Glory Bush and Green Banana
Pamela Harrison (Pamela Harrison McCullough ’68)
Turning Point Books

In Praise of Flesh: New and Selected Poems
Sally Anderson Kitt Chappell ’50
CreateSpace

Mansour: Speaking the Language of Life & Love
Bonita LloydNettles ’75
CreateSpace

Ninety-Nine Names of the Beloved: Intimations of the Beauty and Power of the Divine
Camille Hamilton Adams Helminski ’73
Sweet Lady Press

Children/Young Adult

Daring to Dig: Adventures of Women in American Paleontology
Beth Stricker; illustrated by Alana McGillis ’15
Paleontological Research Institution

Double Take! A New Look at Opposites
Susan Hood (Susan Hood Kueffner ’76); illustrated by Jay Fleck
Candlewick Studio

Goodnight, Mr. Clutterbuck
Mauri Kunnas; translated from the Finnish by Jill Timbers ’76
Elsewhere Editions

I Will Love You
Alyssa Satin Capucilli; illustrated by Lisa Anchin ’04
Cartwheel Books

Sparrow
Sarah Moon ’04
Arthur A. Levine Books

Twindergarten
Nikki Ehrlich; illustrated by Zoey Abbott Wagner ’96
HarperCollins

Who Counts?: 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, and 2 Sons
Amy-Jill Levine ’78 and Sandy Eisenberg Sasso; illustrated by Margaux Meganck
Westminster John Knox Press

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Alumnae News in the Grécourt Gate and the Smith Video Library

Connoisseurship for Life

December 3, 2020

Janice Carlson Oresman ’55 describes the influence of the college’s museum on her life, and also her own strategy for visiting a new museum. 

‘I Want Them to Fall in Love with Learning’

December 3, 2020

Teacher Tracie Benally ’19 faces a steady stream of challenges in her daily effort to educate her students, especially as the pandemic ravages the Navajo reservation she calls home. Still, she has big dreams for her students and a vision for a better, more culturally responsive public education system.

Neuroscientist Pens (Really Fun!) STEM-Adventure Books for Children

September 30, 2020

Neuroscientist Theanne Griffith ’08 is the author of The Magnificent Makers, a series of children’s books that feature Black and people of color characters having the ultimate in STEM adventures, while learning life lessons along the way.

Best Friends Forever

September 28, 2020

Key to the popular novels of J. Courtney Sullivan ’03 are intimate portraits of the interwoven lives of women—and the drama that ensues. Her fifth novel is a case in point.

‘A Role Model in the Pursuit of Justice and Equality’

September 28, 2020

Phoebe Haddon ’72, chancellor emerita of Rutgers University-Camden, reflects on one of the greatest highlights of her career in education and law—receiving the 2019 Association of American Law Schools Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award.