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Permissions Mitzi Adams: Published by permission of the author. Marilou Awiakta: This essay originally appeared in A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Women, edited by Beth Brant, Firebrand Books; and was republished in SELU: Seeking the Corn-Mother’s Wisdom, by Marilou Awiakta. pp. 9299 . Copyright © 1993. Fulcrum Publishing, Golden CO. Published here by permission of Fulcrum Publishing. Amy Blackmarr: Published by permission of the author. An earlier version of this essay appeared in House of Steps, by Amy Blackmarr. Marshall Chapman: Published by permission of the author. A different version of this essay appeared In Hub City Anthology II, published by the Hub City Writers Project. Susan Cushman: Published by permission of the author. Beth Ann Fennelly: Published by permission of the author. A different version of this essay appeared in the Oxford American, Spring 2010, in the Southern Food issue. Connie May Fowler: Published by permission of the author. A different version of this essay was originally published on the author’s blog at http://blog.conniemayfowler. com/. Margaret Gibson: Reprinted from The Prodigal Daughter: Reclaiming an Unfinished Childhood, by Margaret Gibson, by permission of the University of Missouri Press. Copyright © 2008 by the Curators of the University of Missouri. This essay originally appeared in Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. Rheta Grimsley Johnson: From Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming, by Rheta Grimsley Johnson, reprinted with the permission of NewSouth Books, Montgomery , Alabama, and at www.newsouthbooks.com. Mary Karr: Published by permission of the author. This essay originally appeared in Poetry magazine, November 2005. Debra Moffitt: Published by permission of the author. Barbara Robinette Moss: Published by permission of Duane DeRaad and the estate of the author. Brenda Marie Osbey: Published by permission of the author. “Why We Can’t Talk to You about Voodoo” was published in Southern Literary Journal, Spring 2011 (vol. 43, no. 2). Stella Suberman: Published by permission of the author. Barbara Brown Taylor: Published by permission of the author. Valerie Reiss: “Alice Walker Calls God ‘Mama’: An Interview with Alice Walker” first appeared on Beliefnet.com in February 2007, and is reprinted with the permission of Beliefnet. Cia White: Published by permission of the author. Originally published in the Kenyon Review. 230 • permissions [18.217.208.72] Project MUSE (2024-04-26 08:03 GMT) ...

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