by Sheila Heti
DALE MEGAN HEALEY I always lose black cardigans, especially during the winter, because when I take my layers off it’s easy to remember my coat and harder to remember I was also wearing the black cardigan. I’ve lost two in two months. I lost the first one at a party. Earlier that day my California friends and I wrote fortunes to each other and pulled them out of a hat. My fortunes were: “You’ll be reinvented completely” and “Someone will want to interview you and you will have a compulsion to lie.”
STAR SPIDER My wedding tutu and veil were made by a friend who is no longer a friend. They hold memories that are both unbearably bitter and wonderfully sweet. I keep the tutu although I lost the friend who made it.
ELENA MEGALOS I had this embroidered purple shawl that my mother bought me on a trip to Copper Canyon, Mexico. An old roommate borrowed it without asking, and later admitted that it had been stolen at a bar. She was very apologetic and acknowledged that the piece was irreplaceable. It had been an accident, but I felt sorry for myself. I would have liked to participate in the item’s fate. At the very least, I wanted to be the person who lost it.
JOANNA CORNISH I was quite a bit heavier when I was in my later years of high school and through university. I was very distant from my body and lived mostly in my head. When I turned twenty-four, I lost sixty pounds, which I’ve mostly kept off for just under a decade. As a result of this weight loss, it’s less of a struggle to find clothes that fit me and shopping is more fun. I dressed like a homeless person when I was a teenager. Not “cool” hipster homeless like kids now, but actually homeless.
JOHANNA FATEMAN I found a fitted black jacket on the street in my early twenties. I was on some kind of desperate errand for my boss and opened a cab door into a bank of trash bags on the Upper East Side. The jacket was laid on top of the garbage and sort of fell into my arms as I squeezed out of the car. It was originally probably very expensive, but a little threadbare by the time I got it, which actually made it better, punker. It was vaguely military, somehow French, and it had a secret pocket. Even rich people complimented me on it. I loaned it to a friend who took it somewhere to have the lining repaired for me and I never got it back. I want it back because I would still wear it. I have the superstitious conviction it was intended for me, a gift from the universe.
CARLA DU PREE During our courting of eight years, before being married for twenty-five and then some, my Big Al gave me two bracelets that his beloved mother, Vonda, owned. She passed away when he was a mere seventeen-year-old boy. Both were gold: one charm bracelet with a jade Buddha, and the other a large, heavy link bracelet, something I wore for years before someone stole them both.
DEBORAH KIRSHNER I used to love the things that transformed me from an unmade bed into a thing of perfection. These items no longer do the trick—they either are too old or don’t fit anymore—including some really lovely pieces of jewelry. Also lately, certain colors and patterns that once looked good don’t seem to suit me. The truth is that I’m having a hard time with my newfound body. It is nothing like the old one. I can’t get used to it and I can’t redesign it, no matter how hard I try.
ASHLEY C. FORD I can’t recall ever feeling there was an article of clothing I wish I could have back. By the time I give something away, I’m truly done with it.
MARGARITA TUPITSYN One of the reasons Winona Ryder and Johnny Depp once had interesting style has a lot to do with the ’90s—the last moment for alternative culture in America. They obviously had great, raw taste, and when they wore those clothes, they were open to possibilities. Today, everyone, artists included, aspires to be part of the mainstream. There is no alternative culture. No outside.
STEPHANIE RUSSO For a girl with glasses, the perfect pair of glasses are as elusive as they are to be treasured. Mine were so amazing. Perfectly suited to my face, they looked so natural that it was like I wasn’t even wearing glasses. Then one day I sat on them and snapped one of the arms. I still think about those glasses.
KATHRYN DAW I dearly miss my black leather Hermès Cape Cod watch. I sold this beautiful watch in Paris on Craigslist so that I could remain in my rented apartment for another few months while freelance work was minimal.
MARGARET HULL I evacuated to Florida from Louisiana for Hurricane Isaac. The last night of evacuation, my friends and I went dancing and drank too many gin and tonics. I woke up the next morning and realized I wasn’t wearing my great-grandmother’s gold padlock charm. I looked in the car, all over the house, and I was so uncomfortably hungover I went back to bed. I was heading back to New Orleans that day, and though the bars were forty-five minutes away and I had my cat in the car, I had a strong feeling that I should go back and look. The first bar had a large outdoor deck. I talked to a bartender and looked down where we stood. The padlock was at our feet! No chain, and the lock was a little scuffed, but it was there! Such adrenaline passed through me. I thanked her profusely. I love the charm because it has been lost and found (I lost and found it). It’s small, it’s scratched, and it connects me to my family.
JACKIE SORO A couple years ago, in a rush to move out of my house and make it to the airport in time to fly back to the Midwest, I left a pair of glittery silver high-top sneakers in the front room. I only remembered in the car on the way to the airport, and I was tempted to break in through the window and get them, but I didn’t want to risk missing my plane. Those shoes were awesome, though.
SU WU A few years ago, I got an engagement ring. I didn’t want to get married, but the ring was just right—asymmetrical and chipped and old. It sat in a box for more than a year, feeling too delicate and heavy all at once, before I started wearing it. It got a lot of compliments. One day my boyfriend and I went surfing. I was about to go under a wave when I saw a fin. Shark, I thought. I flipped underwater in a ball. When I came up, there was a school of dolphins swimming against the sunset. When my boyfriend and I got home, I realized I had lost the ring in the ocean. My boyfriend said, “It’s good to know there are treasures out there.” He was the real treasure, blah blah, I know, but I still think about the ring.
COLLECTION
LEANNE SHAPTON’s white trousers
ON DRESSING
NOTHING
LISA ROBERTSON
Because nothing was thick enough, nothing was light enough, nothing was supple enough, nothing was orbiting enough, nothing was scathing enough, nothing was touching enough, nothing tried enough, nothing was thinking enough, nothing laughed enough, nothing kissed enough, nightly wasn’t enough, not puffed enough, not long enough, not pelt enough, not loving enough, not liking enough, not dressing enough, not velvet enough, not raining enough, I need a feathered dress for reading Pessoa, I need violet platform pumps for reading Mouré, I need powder and high socks for reading Agamben, I need a Bordeaux batwing shantung jacket for Benveniste. I go on the websites of everything. I’m just someone living in 2014. I’m searching. I’m beginning.
There was the blue crepe knee-length frock printed with comets and rockets, with a wide décolleté. There was the pale pink and black taffeta circle skirt worn with flat sandals and a cropped mohair top in electric blue. There was a broad-shouldered very long 1940s swing coat worn with a string of ivory beads and jazz shoes. There was the teal silk gauze oblong printed Japanese scarf and matching beret. There were brown silk paisley pajamas good for dancing at Les Bains Douches. There were silver bangles and ivory bangles and plastic bangles and wooden bangles. There were lined hand-stitched pigskin gloves. There were gray and yellow floral cotton off-the-shoulder summer dresses. There were pointed shoes and the worn-in ink-marked saddlebag. There were satin-back black crepe Sonia Rykiel hip-huggers cropped above the ankles to show patent leather Doc Martens. There was a honey-colored deep V-neck dress with ruching at the waist and flared skirt. There was the jagged hemmed Japanese thrift skirt worn with brand-new Belgian small-shouldered jacket, ripped tights, and bucked boots from Camden market. There was the equestrian time, the time of little ’60s ladies’ suits worn too tight wit
h boots, the time of jeans torn right and bleached-out platinum hair. There was the discovery of intense red lips, first shiny, then matte, then shiny again. There was dark green mascara. There was the squinting with no glasses, then the tortoiseshell retro glasses. There was the fluid drape of the amazing Demeulemeester overcoat courtesy of Cambridge University Faculty of English. There was the curator friend’s mother’s Comme des Garçons kimono-sleeved taupe knit tube dress with motorcycle boots. There was extremely short hair cut at the barber’s or shaved by boyfriends. There was the ’50s suede pilot-style zippered bomber jacket with knee-length tight plaid skirt and laced ankle boots. There was the high-slit heathered Harris tweed pencil skirt with black stay-ups. There were the twin sets and the off-the-shoulder black sweatshirts and the backless white summer wraparound dress with fine black trim. There were often green shoes. There was the first bottle of black-red nail polish, the big fake-fur coat with high flaring collar worn over the very short skirt with garters showing, there was the black lace knee-length dress with little velvet bolero bought for standby seats at the opera, there was my grandmother’s raw-silk pale yellow skirt suit from 1962. There were the flesh-toned fishnets. There was gingham, alpaca, beading, asymmetrical hair and long hennaed hair. The skull ring. The little kilts with tailored ’40s jackets. The dark green ’70s trench coat with cropped plaid ’50s trousers.
All of this was necessary for reading.
The rules: Awkward proportions, tomboy wears femme or femme wears tomboy, something must be worn-out and frayed or mended, most outfits will reference the history of female genius in their cut, fit, era, or accessories, one pair of good boots is basic to living decently, the bag will always contain several books and many lipsticks, designer is better thrifted, hair should be inappropriate, toenails always painted, tailoring, eBay occasionally for Comme des Garçons.
When I get dressed I’m inventing concepts, in the way concepts are invented. To steal, to layer, to shorten, to mend, to mix eras wrongly, to patiently elaborate a proportion, to not care and to care a lot, to exaggerate and to curtail and to misquote and to buy when a grant comes in to make my girlfriends smile.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to all our wonderful contributors, and to all those who filled out a survey for the book. We wish we could have included everyone. We’d like to thank all those who helped spread word about this project, in particular Sona Avakian, Juliet Jacques, Tyler Perkins, and Nafeesa Syeed. We’d like to especially thank Miranda July and Sarah Nicole Prickett for early editorial input. Also thank you to Rebecca Nagel, Jim Rutman, and Andrew Wylie, and to our editors, Helen Conford, Sarah Hochman, and Friederike Schilbach, for their trust in our vision. Thank you to our families and friends for their love and support. We couldn’t have made this book without the excellent work of our associate editor, Mary Mann, and assistant designer, Kate Ryan.
Leanne Shapton would like to thank Katherine Bernard, Josh Blackwell, Kim Bost, Semi Chellas, Claudia Dey, Bay Garnett, Kuch Naren, Gus Powell, Tom Schierlitz, Jenny Schily, Michael Schmelling, Kristin Sjaarda, Willy Somma, Heidi Sopinka, Luise Stauss, and Rachel Perry Welty for additional photography, and Lisa Naftolin for consulting on the design. Miranda July would like to thank Jona Borrut and Ari Seth Cohen for their support of her project. Thanks to Jennifer Armbrust and Max Fenton for website design. Special thanks to Kathryn Borel, Tom Consiglio, Beth Ficzko, and Claire Vaccaro. Thank you to the women who participated in the Katherine Bernard piece: Irina Aleksander, Rachel Antonoff, Joana Avillez, Durga Chew-Bose, Audrey Gelman, Julie Houts, Alexandra Kleeman, Thessaly La Force, Lucia Della Paolera, and Julia Wideman. Additional illustrations are from Hebrew Through Pictures, The New Encyclopedia of Modern Sewing, Key to the Native Trees of Canada, and Basic Field Manual: Conventional Signs, Military Symbols and Abbreviations.
CONTRIBUTORS
ABI SLONE (here) is an editor in Montreal. ADA EZE (here) is 19; she studies in Turkey, lives in Maine, and wears green lipstick. ADINA GOLDMAN (here) is an editor and Web producer in Toronto, where she lives with her partner and son. ADITI SADEQA RAO (here), 23, grew up mostly in Bombay and a bit in Saint Paul, and is now a law student based in London. ADRIEN J. (here) is a young woman who lives in Los Angeles, working at a start-up company. ADRIENNE BUTIKOFER (here, here) works as a designer in Toronto and is married with two children. AGNES BARLEY (here, here, here, here) is an artist who lives and works in New York City. ALESIA PULLINS (here, here, here) is a professional lady who dwells on the West Coast. Her general interests are bronzer, Beyoncé, and making you feel uncomfortable as she loudly discusses gentrification in wine bars. ALEX (here) works on screenplays and spends most of the year in New Orleans. ALEX WAGNER (here) is a political analyst and anchor of the daytime program Now with Alex Wagner on MSNBC. ALEXA S. (here, here, here) is a 33-year-old film producer in London. ALEXANDER NAGEL (here) is currently writing a book on orientation in art and an essay on art forgery. ALEXANDRA JACOBS (here) is deputy fashion critic for The New York Times. ALEXANDRA KERN (here, here) is a Brooklyn-based writer and performer. She is originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio. ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN (here) lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York, where she is completing her first novel. ALEXANDRA ZSIGMOND (here) is deputy art director for the opinion section at The New York Times. ALEXI CHISLER (here, here, here), born in 1977, currently lives half the time in Brooklyn, New York, and half the time in hotels around the world while working for the American Museum of Natural History. ALEXIA CHANDON-PIAZZA (here) is a French multidisciplinary artist and actress. She is studying to become an art therapist. ALI COTTONG (here) is 24 and lives in San Francisco. ALICIA BERNLOHR (here, here, here, here, here, here) is a writer and artist who lives in New York. ALICIA ELLIOTT (here, here) is working on her first screenplay and lives in Brantford, Ontario, with her husband and daughter. ALICIA MEIER (here) studies writing and translation in New York City. ALISSA NUTTING (here, here, here, here) is author of the books Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls and Tampa. ALIYA JACOBS’s (here) second book, a collection of poetry, was released this year. She is married and lives in South Africa. ALLISON D. (here, here, here) is a writing professor in Iowa, where she lives with her husband and dogs. ALMITRA COREY (here) is 34 and lives in Los Angeles, where she works as a production designer. ALY MARGARETS (here) is 23 and lives in Hamilton, Ontario. AMANDA M. (here, here) is an editor in Chicago. AMANDA MILLER (here, here, here) lives and works in Toronto. AMANDA STERN (here, here) is the author of the novel The Long Haul and eleven books for children. She founded the popular Happy Ending Music and Reading Series in New York City. AMÉLIE SNYERS (here) is Belgian, 28, and lives in London. AMY BONNAFFONS (here, here) is a writer and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. AMY BRILL’s (here, here) first novel, The Movement of Stars, was published by Riverhead Books in 2013. AMY FUSSELMAN’s (here) new book is Savage Park: A Meditation on Play, Space, and Risk for Americans Who Are Nervous, Distracted, and Afraid to Die. AMY KEY (here) lives in London. Her poetry collection Luxe was published in 2013. AMY LAM (here, here) is one-half of the performance-art group Life of a Craphead. She lives in Toronto. AMY MARTHA McGURK (here) is a designer and single mom living outside Atlanta. AMY PINKHAM (here) is a photographer. AMY RUDERSDORF (here, here) lives in Wisconsin, where she works as a librarian. AMY ROSE SPIEGEL (here, here, here, here) is a 23-year-old writer and story editor for Rookie. AMY TURNER (here, here, here) lives in Los Angeles. She has written for NBC, CBS, ABC Family, and The Huffington Post. She is working on a collection of essays. ANA BUNČIĆ (here), 38, is an editorial assistant in Zagreb, Croatia. ANA KINSELLA (here, here) is a 25-year-old writer and journalist living in London. ANA OTTMAN (here) is a writer living in Los Angeles. ANA ZIR (here, here, here), 63, is a mother of four daughters and a hospice and palliative care RN in Tucson. ANAHIT ORDYAN (here) lives in Yerevan and works at the American University of Armenia. ANDREA MICHELLE STEELE (here) is married and living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she works in clinical research. ANDREA WALKER (here) lives in Stamf
ord, Connecticut, and is an editor in New York City. ANISE LeANN (here) is 36 and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she is a commercial photographer. ANISSE GROSS (here) is a writer living in San Francisco. ANITA ABRAMS (here, here) is a recently retired clinical psychologist. ANITA DOLMAN’s (here) short stories and poetry have appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies throughout Canada and the United States. She lives in Ottawa, where she is on the board of directors for Arc Poetry Magazine. ANITA POWELL (here) is a radio and television journalist based in Johannesburg. ANN BOGLE’s (here, here) stories appear in various print and online journals. Her clothes are shelved in four closets in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, one block west of Minneapolis. ANN IRELAND (here, here, here) is the prizewinning author of four novels and lives in Toronto. ANN TASHI SLATER (here) (anntashislater.com) is working on a travel memoir set in India and a novel based on the Tibetan side of her family. ANNA BACKMAN ROGERS (here) is a postdoctoral scholar in film studies at Stockholm University. ANNA BASS (here) is a dancer and associate artistic director of Monica Bill Barnes & Company. ANNA COSTLEY (here) lives in Wellington, New Zealand, and writes the Web comic Anna-grams. ANNA LEE (here) is 26 and lives in New York City, where she attends nursing school. ANNA CLARE SPELMAN (here) is a documentary photographer from Silver Spring, Maryland. She is currently based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. ANNA WEBBER (here) is a literary agent in London. She is married and has three children. ANNE LAURENCE GOLLION (here) is 26 and just moved from Paris to Jerusalem, where she works as a freelance writer. ANNEMIEKE BEEMSTER LEVERENZ (here) is a graphic designer living in Brooklyn, New York. ANNETTE CARGIOLI (here) is a natural health care doctor and educator in Indiana. ANNIE REBEKAH GARDNER (here) lives between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Cairo. ANNIE McDONALD (here) is a writer and prop stylist who lives in Toronto with her husband and two small children. ANNIKA WAHLSTRÖM (here, here) is a Swedish textile artist and bus driver. ANU HENDERSON (here, here, here) is a researcher and lives in Victoria, British Columbia, with her husband and baby. AREV DINKJIAN (here, here) is 21 years old. She is currently studying elementary and special education at Providence College and hopes to become an elementary school teacher. ARIA SLOSS (here, here) is the author of Autobiography of Us, which was published in 2013. ARIEL GARFINKEL (here, here) is a writer from New Jersey. ARIEL N. KATES (here) lives, works, and writes in New York City. ASHLEY C. FORD (here, here, here) is a 27-year-old writer from Indiana who lives in New York. AUDREY GELMAN (here, here, here, here), 26, lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works as a political and public affairs consultant. AUGUSTA LEE (here) is a model in New York. AURELIA (here, here, here, here, here) is a screen and stage performing artist based in the eastern United States, and cohost of Black Girls Talking. Parisian-born AURÉLIE PELLISSIER (here) lives in New York, where she is senior art director at T Magazine. AURORA SHIMSHAK (here, here) is 30 years old and teaches high school English in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. AVA V. (here) is 38 and lives in Bilbao, Spain. She writes unpublished books and works as a hairstylist and makeup artist. AVIVA MICHAELOV (here) is an art director at The New York Times. BARBARA DAMROSCH (here) is a farmer and author of The Garden Primer and coauthor of The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook. BAY GARNETT (here, here, here) is a contributing fashion editor at British Vogue, a stylist and thrift store devotee, and a former coeditor of Cheap Date magazine. BEN (here) is an artist and engineer living in Winchester, England. BENEDICTE PINSET (here) is an artist and mother. BETH FOLLETT (here, here, here) lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, where she is publisher-editor at Pedlar Press. BETH STUART (here, here) is an artist who lives and works in Hamilton, Ontario. BEV SANDELL GREENBERG (here) is a fiction writer, reviewer, poet, and editor living in the Canadian prairies. BIANCA HALL (here) is 30 years old and lives in Toronto, where she works as a television news producer. BLAINE HARPER (here) lives in San Francisco. She works on Alcatraz Island and is an intern for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. BONNIE MORRISON (here, here, here, here) is a New York–based fashion publicist. BRIAN McCLOSKEY (here) was born in Northern Ireland in 1969 and now lives in Southern California. BRITTANY BROWN (here) is 26 and lives in Philadelphia, where she works at two independent bookstores. BRONWYN CAWKER (here, here) is 27 and lives in Toronto, where she works as an administrative assistant and attends school part-time. BRYENNE KAY (here, here, here, here) is 28 and lives in Moscow. CAIA HAGEL’s (here, here, here [interviewed Sasha Grey]) personality profiles, fictions, cultural travelogues, and art+design thoughts appear in magazines, in advertising, and on social media internationally. CAILIN HILL (here, here, here) is a retired fashion model who now does everything but that to make ends meet. She is a freelance writer, hot wife, zine publisher, photographer, and founder of the blog Modelburnbook. CAITLIN ANN HARRINGTON (here) is 26 and lives in Brooklyn, New York. She is a researcher on the Chuck Close catalogue raisonné. CAITLIN VAN DUSEN (here, here, here) is an editor and writer living in Brooklyn, New York. CAITLYNN CUMMINGS (here) is a creative writer and administrator based in Calgary, Canada; follow her on Twitter @Tartaned_Maple. CAITRIN LYNCH (p. 36 [interviewed Rachel Weeks]) is an anthropologist at Olin College of Engineering and the author of Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka’s Global Garment Industry. CAMILLA GIBB (here) has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Oxford University and is the author of four novels, including Sweetness in the Belly and The Beauty of Humanity Movement. CAMILLE CAMPBELL (here) lives in Los Angeles, where she writes screenplays and blogs at excellentnotion.com. CARISSA HALSTON (here, here, here) has been a prose editor at AGNI, and is currently writing a novel called Conjoined States. CARLA DU PREE (here, here, here, here, here) is the author of the novel Where the Spirit Meets the Bone and has been published in Callaloo and other literary journals and in the anthology The Spirit of Pregnancy. She speaks regularly at literary events and lives in Columbia, Maryland. CARLY KATZ (here) is 26 and lives in Washington, D.C., where she works on Capitol Hill. CARMEN JOY KING (here, here) is a writer living in Montreal. CAROLANN MADDEN (here, here) has an M.A. in English from Boston College, and an MFA in poetry from San Diego State University. She is working on a book of translations of Irish-language poetry. CAROLINE EICK (here) is a writer and editor in New York City. CAROLINE HIRSCH (here) is a photo editor who lives north of New York City with her beloved husband, Chihuahua, and tortoise. CAROLYN F. (here) is a writer who lives in north central Washington state; she is married and has five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. CARRIE MURPHY (here, here) is a poet and doula living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her first book of poems, Pretty Tilt, was published in 2012 and her second, Fat Daisies, is forthcoming in 2014. CASSANDRA LEVEILLE (here) is 24 years old and lives on Long Island. She has interned at many feminist nonprofit organizations. CAT TYC (here) is a new media poet/video artist whose music videos have aired on Logo’s NewNowNext and mtvU. CATH LE COUTEUR (here) is a filmmaker based in London. CATHERINE CONNELL (here) is an almost 30-year-old mental health clinician in Leyden, Massachusetts. CATHERINE LACEY (here, here) is the author of Nobody Is Ever Missing. CATHERINE LITTEN (here) is 24 years old and an international education professional. CATHERINE MAROTTA (here, here) is a teacher and graduate student living in Brooklyn, New York. CATHERINE ORCHARD (here) is a graphic designer and illustrator in Brooklyn. CATHERINE STOCKHAUSEN (here) is a Toronto television producer, photographer, and sometimes musician. CATHY DE LA CRUZ (here) is a filmmaker and writer with an MFA in visual arts from the University of California, San Diego. She will soon have an MFA in creative writing from the University of Arizona. CERIDWEN MORRIS (here) is a writer and childbirth educator. CHANG SHIH YEN (here) is from Malaysia and currently living in New Zealand. She writes a blog about shoes at shihyenshoes.wordpress.com. CHARLOTTE BOYD (here) is 23 and lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where she works as a Web producer at a news station. CHARLOTTE YOSHIMURA (here) is an oncologist in Oklahoma. CHIN-SUN LEE (here, here) lived in New York for many years, and is currently wandering the West and writing. CHRISTA PARRAVANI’
s (here) first book, Her: A Memoir, was published last year, and she is currently at work on another. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. CHRISTEN CLIFFORD (here) is a writer, feminist performance artist, actor, curator, professor and mother who lives in Queens, New York, and online at christenclifford.tumblr.com. CHRISTINA GONZALES (here, here) is 50 and lives in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, and is working as a program technician for the USDA Farm Service Agency. CHRISTINE GIGNAC (here) is 30 and lives in New York City, where she works as a creative director in advertising. CHRISTINE MUHLKE (here, here, here, here) is the executive editor of Bon Appétit. CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN (here) is a writer who lives in New York City. His first novel, Lightning People, came out in 2011; his second, Orient, will be out in 2015. CHRISTY-CLAIRE KATIEN (here, here, here) is a designer and photographer based in New York City. CINDY SHERMAN (here) is an artist who lives and works in New York City. CLAIRE CAMERON (here), author of the novels The Bear and The Line Painter, lives in Toronto. CLAIRE COTTRELL (here, here) is a filmmaker and photographer living in Mount Washington, California. CLAIRE GRIFFIN (here). CLAIRE O. (here, here, here) trained as a lawyer before going into teaching. She is 26, and lives in Melbourne, Australia. CLARE NEEDHAM’s (here, here, here, here, here) novella Bad Books will be published in 2015. CLAUDIA EVE BEAUCHESNE (here, here, here) is a Montreal- and New York–based art critic, curator, and film buyer. She is currently writing a book on the 1980s East Village art scene. CLAUDIA DEY (here, here) has written plays and the novel Stunt. She makes dresses under the label Horses Atelier. CLEO PERRY (here, here) is 37 and works and lives, happily, in London. CLODAGH DEEGAN (here), here, is a costume designer working in theater and opera, based in Dublin. COLLEEN ASPER (here, here, here) is an artist. CONSTANCE STERN (here) is a student in Vienna. CRYSTAL MORTGENTALER (here) is a 31-year-old film archivist from London. CYRENA LEE (here) is a writer and anthropologist living in Brooklyn, New York. DALE MEGAN HEALEY (here, here, here) is a Brooklyn-based writer and teacher. Her work has appeared in The Atlas Review, The Common, Diagram, Prick of the Spindle, and elsewhere. DANKA HALL (here, here, here) works in sexual health awareness. DAPHNE JAVITCH (here, here, here) created and designs TEN, an underwear line inspired by her spirit and style icons. DEBORAH AUER (here) sings jazz and teaches music in New York City. DEBORAH KIRSHNER (here, here) is a violinist, now retired from a long career of making music, and lives in Toronto. DELIA MARCUS (here) is 10 years old and lives in New York. DENISE MINEO (here, here) lives in the New Orleans suburbs, is happily married, works as an executive assistant, and has two grown sons and two cats. DIANA BECKER (here) is a mother, wife, and marketing creative from California, currently living in New York City. DINA GOLDSTEIN (here) is a preschool teacher and grandmother. DONORA HILLARD (here) is a coauthor of Covenant and other collections of poetry and hybrid text. Projects she has been involved in have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, Lybba, and the Poetry Foundation. DORETTA LAU (here, here) is the author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?, a short story collection. She lives in Vancouver and Hong Kong, where she works as a journalist. DORLA McINTOSH (here) works at Columbia University and lives in New Jersey. DOROTHY DENISOFF (here) lives on the Washington coast and is writing a memoir. DOROTHY PLATT (here) is an environmental rights activist. DURGA CHEW-BOSE here lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. E. M. HECTOR (here) lives and works in the Sunshine State. She is married and has two grown sons and three grandchildren. Though clothing has never been her passion, writing has. Her work has appeared online and in print. EDIE CULSHAW (here, here) is 26 and lives in London. EILEEN MYLES (here, here, here, here, here) is a poet, novelist, and art journalist who lives in New York. She is currently working on a dog memoir, Afterglow. EITHNE BARRON (here) is an office worker; she is married and has two grown sons. ELEANOR JOHNSTON (here, here) is a former bookseller and now a collection curator in Toronto. ELEANOR WEST (here, here, here) is 27 and teaches English in Nanjing. ELENA MEGALOS (here) is 27 and lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she writes, draws, and teaches. ELIF BATUMAN (here) was writer-in-residence at Koç University in Istanbul and wrote about Turkey for The New Yorker. ELIOT COLEMAN (here) is a farmer and the author of The New Organic Grower, Four-Season Harvest, and The Winter Harvest Handbook and a coauthor of The Four Season Farm Gardener’s Cookbook. 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She has published several books, most recently Love Dog. MAURA EGAN (here) is a writer and editor in Brooklyn, New York. MAYA FUHR (here, here, here) was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and now lives in Toronto; she is a photographer and actor. MEG BARKER (here) is an activist, therapist, academic, and author of the book Rewriting the Rules. MEGAN B. (here) is a musician and educator who lives in Toronto. MEGAN FRANKLYNE (here, here) is an environmental consultant who spilts her time between Faro, Yukon, and Toronto. MEGAN HUSTAD (here, here, here, here) lives in New York. MEGAN PATTERSON (here) is a Toronto-based writer and the science and technology editor of Paper Droids, a geek culture site for women. MEGGIN HAMMILL (here) is a high school teacher in North Carolina. MEGHAN BEAN FLAHERTY (here, here) is a writer of nonfiction. MELANIE PAGE (here, here) runs the women’s book review site Grab the Lapels and organizes virtual book tours. 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