Bryn Mawr Authors

This book tells the story of a group of kindergartners and college students as they explore what it means to grow. Reading it, children will find out that growing includes learning about their bodies, where food comes from, and beautiful places in the world. The book is a culmination of "The Growing Project," a curriculum created by college students working in partnership with a kindergarten class. It is a celebration of children's voices and learners self-worth at every stage of development -- a narrative about and by young people who embark on a journey of discovery that connects their own health and future with that of the world. "I like it!" -AL, Thorne Kindergarten Student "It's awesome!" -JM, Thorne Kindergarten Student "How can we grow a better world? This questions turns a group of children into explorers - of their neighborhood and the neighborhoods of distant continents. They learn that sharing and caring for the world take root when they grow together. Delightful illustrations spark a story that will inspire kids and the grown-ups who care for them." -J.C Todd, grandmother and Lecturer in Creative Writing, Bryn Mawr College "Children will love this fanciful and informative book about what they do best: growing! All readers will find inspiration in how the book itself grew -- a vital collaboration among college students and kindergarten creating a curriculum, and a vision, to help the world." -Alice Lesnick, PH.D., Director/Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program To learn more about "The Growing Project," please visit: thejourneyofgrowing.wordpress.com All proceeds from the sale of this book will benefit Titagya Schools in Northern Ghana, a pre-school and kindergarten enterprise that shares the book's vision and values. To find out more, please visit: http: //titagyaschools.org/wordpress

2026 shortlist for a Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry and a Golden Crown Literary Award

Samantha Pious's translations from the Portuguese of Judith Teixeira's poetry in Cactus Flowers resound with sensual energy and burning tenderness. Reading these poems, one is struck not only with the passion of Teixeira's queer love poems but by the way in which turbulent politics and social tensions are subtly traceable within the lines. Translations such as this renew literature across multiple languages; Pious is asking us not only to reconsider Teixeira's place within the canon but to reconsider what makes the canon itself: whose stories are valid, which loves are counted, whose language is considered inventive or new. Pious translates Teixeira's synesthetic rapture for English language readers who might be out of practice with such unconstrained earnestness, reminding us that pleasure does have the possibility of obliterating the pain it passes through. What excites me perhaps most about this collection, however, is its ability to transgress any notion of a quiet reading experience. The lone reader is thrown into the bodily world, reminding us that words first and foremost are of the body and its unique experiences.

-Allison Grimaldi Donahue

Judith Teixeira's poetry has almost always, over the decades, discomfited specialists, whether because she was a woman writer whose style (Symbolist-Decadent, saudosista, and modernist) was used by the masculine canon of her day, or because her own amorous discourse manifests, at times, a lesbian desire characteristic of the poetic of the boudoir. Her verses disquiet, fascinate, and give rise to heated discussions, as often in her defense as in the condemnation of her work. Above all, she translated the clashes of the Roaring Twenties and fought for the right to liberty and artistic expression.

This English edition-with a selection and preface by Samantha Pious, wherein I would underline the sensitivity and care of her fine translations, as well as her personal commitment-allows Anglophone readers to connect with the first Portuguese woman writer to sing of lesbian love, transforming women's bodies into objects of worship and of carnal consummation.

We celebrate this edition, then, with the words Judith Teixeira wrote in 1922 in her poem "Free," which return to life, reinvented, in 2025: "today, my desire intensifies / for what other hours might bring."

-Fabio Mario da Silva

The inspiring memoir of Evie Rich, a fearless African-American activist whose lifelong fight for justice, equality, and workers' rights shaped pivotal moments in American civil rights history.

From the working-class streets of Depression-era Philadelphia to the front lines of America's most pivotal civil rights battles, Evie Rich's extraordinary journey is a testament to courage, conviction, and the relentless pursuit of justice. In Civil Rights Warrior, Rich chronicles her rise from humble beginnings to becoming a trailblazer in the fight for equality-breaking barriers as an African-American woman at Bryn Mawr College, debating Malcolm X on the airwaves, and shaping the course of history through her leadership in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and Americans for Democratic Action.

With unflinching honesty, Rich shares the triumphs and setbacks of a lifetime spent challenging discrimination in education, employment, and public life-from holding institutions accountable in Washington, D.C. to advocating for the rights of New York City's most vulnerable citizens. Alongside luminaries like James Baldwin, she raised funds for sit-ins and mentored new generations of activists, all while rising to Associate Dean within the City University of New York.

Now in her nineties, Evie Rich remains a powerful voice--spearheading the fight to protect retirees' health care and inspiring those who refuse to accept injustice. Civil Rights Warrior is a vital legacy for activists past, present, and future, and a stirring reminder that the struggle for equality is far from over.

The first major book for writers to more effectively engage with complex socio-political issues--a critical first step in creating social change

Writers are witnesses and scribes to society's conscience but writing about social issues in the twenty-first century requires a new, sharper toolkit. Craft and Conscience helps writers weave together their narrative craft, analytical and research skills, and their conscience to create prose which makes us feel the individual and collective impact of crucial issues of our time. Kavita Das guides writers to take on nuanced perspectives and embrace intentionality through a social justice lens. She challenges writers to unpack their motivations for writing about an issue and to understand that "writing, irrespective of genre or outlet, is an act of political writing," regardless of intention.

The book includes essays from a fascinating mix of authors, including James Baldwin, Alexander Chee, Kaitlyn Greenidge, George Orwell, Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz, Gaiutra Bahadur, Jaquira Díaz, and Imani Perry. By including Das's own perspective and those of the featured writers about motivations and approaches to writing about fraught social issues, this book both demystifies the process of engaging social issues on the page, and underscores the intentionality and sensitivity that must go into the work.