This is the work of The VIDA Count: to reveal an overall systemic problem and encourage a proactive change in how our leading publishing magazines and journals represent empathetic culture.

This is the work of The VIDA Count: to reveal an overall systemic problem and encourage a proactive change in how our leading publishing magazines and journals represent empathetic culture.

Literary publications that achieve near contributor gender parity are in a strict minority.

The hush of cold greets us in the opening circus of Hibernaculum . A family in winter navigates through the chatter of its children, young adults, and older adults

On March 8, 2011 I launched So to Speak’s blog with a simple one line post.

Melissa Schuppe’s debut chapbook Wild, But Not Lost(Finishing Line Press, 2013) finds itself in the good company of poets’ Sarah Vap, Rachel Zucker, and Arielle Greenberg: women writing motherhood and sharing women’s multifaceted experiences in the age of choice and women’s equality.