Introduction / Janet Burroway
The older writer in the underworld / Julia Alvarez
On craft / Margaret Atwood
The ratio is narrowing / Madeleine Blais
Parsing ambition / Rosellen Brown
Mothers and daughters / Judith Ortiz Cofer
The offices of my heart / Toi Derricotte
Working on the ending / Gail Godwin
The potholder model of literary ambition / Patricia Henley
Breaking the final taboo / Erica Jong
Passing it on / Marilyn Krysl
Metamorphosis: from light verse to the poetry of witness / Maxine Kumin
On certainty / Honor Moore
Splitting open: some poems on aging / Alicia Ostriker
Old woman, or nearly so myself: an essay in poems / Linda Pastan
Public appearances / Edith Pearlman
Say yes / Hilda Raz
Boys and girls / Jane Smiley
The stories from which I come / Laura Tohe
What I know / Hilma Wolitzer.
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A story larger than my own : women writers look back on their lives and careers. ISBN 9780226014104. Published by The University of Chicago Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
