“There tends to be a feeling of who belongs in small towns and if you’re an outlier in any way, the town will try to get you to conform.” – Jeni McFarland Jeni McFarland holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston, where she was a fiction editor at Gulf Coast Magazine. […]

“For women, we spend a lot of time observing how other women are being received and we pay a lot of attention to how we are being received, in a way that men just don’t have to think about.” – Andrea Bartz Andrea Bartz is a Brooklyn-based journalist and author of the forthcoming thriller THE

“There are all these studies that show women lose their confidence at age 13 or 14. All this weird shit is happening and it changes your worldview.” – Candace Bushnell Candace Bushnell is the critically acclaimed, international best-selling author of ten books, including Is There Still Sex in the City, Sex and the City, Summer

“For too long our stories haven’t been written and these women, who have accomplished so many things that we’ll never know, were relegated to the shadows.” – Samira Ahmed Samira Ahmed is the New York Times bestselling author of Love, Hate & Other Filters, Internment and Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know. She was born in

“I’m so in awe of women who go out everyday in quite a volatile climate since 9/11 and are still showing up and not surrendering or relinquishing their hijab.” – Sahar Mustafah Sahar Mustafah is a daughter of Palestinian immigrants, a complex inheritance she explores in her work. Her prize-winning short story collection Code of

“There is hope. It’s important not to lose hope. As long as you’re alive, there is something you can do.” – Margi Preus Margi Preus is New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Honor book Heart of a Samurai, the Minnesota Book Award winning West of the Moon, and several other books for young

“This is about Indians for Indians and it’s not try to teach about a culture or pander to anything. There are no lessons for white people in this book.” – Erika T. Wurth Erika T. Wurth’s publications include two novels, Crazy Horse’s Girlfriend and You Who Enter Here, two collections of poetry and a collection

 “Is it going to harm feminism as a whole if you continue consuming R. Kelly albums? No, but it’s also an opportunity to interrogate how women consumers don’t have many options and so we see ourselves through the pop culture products that are overwhelming created by white men.” – Andi Zeisler Andi Zeisler is

“Even though this book is a comedy, there’s still social commentary in there.” – Quan Barry Quan Barry is a poet and novelist. She’s the author of four books of poetry, most recently, Loose Strife, as well as the novel She Weeps Each Time You’re Born. Barry teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she

“We don’t believe fashion and beauty are inherently bad but there’s so much more to women than just that. And that magazine didn’t exist yet.” – Jessica Weiss Jessica Weiss is the Publisher and Co-founder of Trix, where she looks after the magazine’s commercial, editorial and brand viability, strategic partnerships, and overall business strategy. A