Janet Sternburg

Published to high praise—"groundbreaking . . . a landmark" (Poets and Writers)—this was the first anthology to celebrate the diversity of women who write. Seventeen novelists, poets, and writers of nonfiction explore how they have become writers, why they write, and what it means to be a woman and a writer.

The Writer on Her Work I, a ground-breaking collection of personal essays about what it means to be a woman who writes, was published to high praise in 1980. Now, in a second volume, Janet Sternburg has again commissioned essays from novelists, poets, and nonfiction writers from the United States and abroad.