Pub Date: May 20th, 2023
Format: Paperback
Pages: 218
Trim Size: 5.5″ x 8.5″
ISBN: 978–0–965944–34–2
Price: $17.95

In Locker Room Talk, we listen in on the epic and ordinary moments that happen when women are together. Subverting the traditional idea of “locker room talk,” this collection illuminates the conversations women share with family, friends, and strangers, whether at the sinks of a nightclub ladies’ room, on a bus heading to the Women’s March, or in the kitchen of an elder relative. Cumulatively, they reveal the myriad ways women care for themselves, each other, their communities, and our world.

Contributors include Maureen Aitken, Lydia May Anderson, Gargi C. Bakshi, Shá Cage, Patricia Cumbie, Venus Demars, Molly Fields, Julie Gard, Michelle Garre, Jessy Greene, Elizabeth Hawes, Casey Jarrin, Rachel Jendrzejewski, Tricia Knoll, Annabelle Guihan Larsen, Mary Quinn McCallum, Alison McGhee, Leslie Adrienne Miller, J. Mork, Mo Murphy, Christina Myers, Emmaleigh Myhre, Ngoc Nguyen, Suzanne Nielsen, Jude Nutter, Candice Marilyn Ralph, Amanda Recupido, Nicole Rodgers, Amanda Rosas, Darci Schummer, Suzanne Swanson, Terri Topness, Carlee Tressel, Beulah Vega, Becca Williams, Olivia Wolf, and Kao Kalia Yang.

Margret Aldrich is the author of The Little Free Library Book (Coffee House Press, 2015), a ten-year veteran of the publishing industry, recipient of an Innovator Award from the Book Industry Study Group, and former Princeton University writing fellow. She has published her work with The Atlantic, Utne Reader, Huffington Post, Book Riot, and others. Today Margret is the director of communications and media relations at the Little Free Library nonprofit organization.

Michelle Filkins is a founding editor of Spout Press and a contributing author to The Evolution of Human Cooperation and Community Development (Lexington Books, 2021) and Creating a Transformational Community: The Fundamentals of Stewardship Activities (Lexington Books, 2017). She is a Little Free Library steward and one of the Daunte Wright Memorial caretakers. Currently she is a professor and reference and instruction librarian at Metro State University in St. Paul.

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