Fresh Water

Women Writing on the Great Lakes

by Alison Swan

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East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press

“Wonderfully edited and selected by Alison Swan. This is a sexy, sparkling book–full of history and families, reminiscences and ghosts.”

– Patricia Clark, author of 'She Walks Into the Sea' and 'My Father on a Bicycle'

Description

Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes is a collection of nonfiction works by women writers. These works focus on the Midwest: living with the five interconnected freshwater seas that we know as the Great Lakes. Contributing to this collection are renowned poets, essayists, and fiction writers, all of whom write about their own creative streams of consciousness, the fresh waters of the Great Lakes, and the region's many rivers: Loraine Anderson, Judith Arcana, Rachel Azima, Mary Blocksma, Gayle Boss, Sharon Dilworth, Beth Ann Fennelly, Linda Nemec Foster, Gail Griffin, Rasma Haidri, Aleta Karstad, Laura Kasischke, Janet Kauffman, Jacqueline Kolosov, Susan Laidlaw, Lisa Lenzo, Linda Loomis, Anna Mills, Stephanie Mills, Judith Minty, Anne-Marie Oomen, Rachael Perry, Susan Power, Donna Seaman, Heather Sellers, Gail Louise Siegel, Sue William Silverman,Claudia Skutar, Annick Smith, Leslie Stainton, Kathleen Stocking, Judith Strasser, Alison Swan, Elizabeth A.Trembley, Jane Urquhart, Diane Wakoski, and Leigh Allison Wilson. (via msupress.org)

Alison Swan Alison Swan’s fifth book, A Fine Canopy, released by Wayne State University Press in 2020, was short-listed for an IPPY Poetry Medal by Independent Publisher, named one of the eleven most anticipated poetry releases of fall 2020 by LitHub, and highly recommended by Orion magazine. Her first, Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakes is a Michigan Notable Book. Born in Detroit, Swan is a Mesa Refuge writer’s residency fellow and a Petoskey Prize for Grassroots Environmental Leadership co-winner. Her poems and environmental writing have also appeared in two chapbooks and in many anthologies and journals. After stints on the east and west coasts of North America, Alison Swan settled back in Michigan’s lower peninsula. For 14 years, she taught writing and literature at Western Michigan University’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. (via alisonswan.net)

Learn more about Alison Swan and Fresh Water at: https://alisonswan.net/