The Confidence woman : [electronic resource] 26 women writers at work / edited by Eve Shelnutt.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Layers / Pam Durban -- Why the figure of Christ keeps turning up in my work / Kelly Cherry -- My life as a boy / Laura Kalpakian -- Lion under maples / Josephine Jacobsen -- Entering the garden / Patricia Goedicke -- Sex with the servants: or, autobiography and fiction / Lynn Freed -- Eating barley sugar and waiting to be ninety / Rachel Hadas -- Almost impossible / Gina Berriault -- The Education of the poet / Louise Gluck -- Somewhere from here / Colleen J. McElroy -- Junk / Hilda Raz -- Would I have become a writer without my sister? Nahid Rachlin -- A Clean sheet of paper / Debora Greger -- The History of a closet poet / Karen Swenson -- Starting from scratch / Martha M. Vertreace -- On writing nonfiction / Melissa Fay Greene -- "Why don't you write a nice story" / Sheila Roberts -- One day old / Jane Miller -- Morning tales / Eve Shelnutt -- The Journey of an exiled daughter / Colette Inez -- Of love and art: a tale of paradoxes / Natalie L. M. Petesch -- Understanding backward / Gail Gallowayd Adams -- Life in the boxcar / Fleda Brown Jackson -- Writing in the smokehouse / Lisa Koger -- Freedomland / Cheryl Pearl Sucher -- Writing against the wind: being all things to all people and the arrogance of the female stance / Jane Hill.