Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink (Or Not)

Contributors

181 Contributors gina barreca, who lives in Connecticut, grew up in Brooklyn and on Long Island. She is the author of eight books, including Babes in Boyland : A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League, and It’s Not That I’m Bitter—or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World. She is a professor of modern British literature and feminist theory at the University of Connecticut, and you can read more of her work at www.ginabarreca.com. At a party, you would probably find Gina holding forth. If she’s lucky, she’s also holding a glass of Perrier-Jouët, mostly because she thinks the bottle is fancy. amy bloom hails from the home of Long Island iced tea but now lives in Connecticut. She is the University Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University and owns a bottle of sherry. She is the author of two novels, three collections of short stories, and a book of essays. kerri brown is a recent graduate of the University of Connecticut. While there, she spent as much time as she could writing, possibly more time working on various nonfiction, poetry, and fiction pieces than studying for any of her other classes. She’d like to toast her fabulous feminist professors for showing her that writing about women can be fun. When she’s at a party, you will see her unable to let go of her college youth, casually pouring herself a glass from a bag of Franzia or sipping a chilled Keystone (Light). nicole callihan writes poems, stories, and essays. Her work has appeared in Cream City Review, L Magazine, and Painted Bride Quarterly . She teaches at New York University and in schools and hospitals throughout the city. A founding member of the Brooklyn Writers Collective, she was named a Rockefeller House Fellow. Nights, she returns to Brooklyn to be with her family and pour herself a big glass of cold white wine. susan campbell is an award-winning columnist at the Hartford Courant and the author of Dating Jesus: A Story of Fundamentalism, Feminism, and the American Girl, a Connecticut Book Award finalist. You can read more of her work at www.datingjesus.net. 182 t Contributors rita ciresi (www.ritaciresi.com) is the author of five works of fiction, including the novels Pink Slip and Remind Me Again Why I Married You, and the linked short-story collection Sometimes I Dream in Italian . She is a professor of English at the University of South Florida. Her drink of choice is tap water. catherine conant lives in Berlin, Connecticut, and teaches, performs , and coaches the art of oral storytelling in nonprofit settings. Her work has been published in 40 Fathers, My Little Red Book, and Who Killed June Cleever? You can hear her stories on her CDs, Exit 11 and Other Stories and Far From Perfect. She believes that one day she will own a decent set of both red and white wineglasses. louise crawford, who lives in Brooklyn, writes the Smartmom column for the Brooklyn Paper. She runs Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn (www.otbkb.com) and the Brooklyn Blogfest. A writer of fiction, she has written for the Associated Press and Newsweek.com. You can find Louise at Bar Reis drinking Sailor Jerry rum. niamh cunningham, who lives in New Haven (but prefers New York), is the author of the blog A New York Minute. It has tens of readers . An editorial assistant at Yale University Press, she hasn’t published much yet, but she enjoys receiving rejection letters written to “Mr. Cunningham.” You can read her work at www.31stavenue .wordpress.com. At a party, you’ll find Niamh holding a glass of Pinot Grigio. If the wine is warm, she’s clearly spent too much time talking, so remind her to drink up. sarah deming is the author of the novel Iris, Messenger, about the Greek gods in suburbia, for ages 9 to 109. She also ghostwrites erotic novels. Before becoming an author, Sarah was a Golden Gloves boxing champion, chef, and yoga teacher. She lives in Brooklyn but drinks Manhattans. kristen dombek’s essays can be found in n + 1, The Painted Bride Quarterly, and TDR: The Drama Review. She teaches in the Princeton Writing Program and drinks in Brooklyn. liza donnelly is a staff cartoonist at the New Yorker and the editor of Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their...