BY AND FOR WRITERS

SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE OPEN: Women Writers and the Art of Survival

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Edited by Marilyn Kallet and Judith Ortiz Cofer

University of Georgia Press, 221 pages, $16.95 paper

Not many of the women authors in this collection had “Rooms of Their Own” to work in when they first became writers, but they located–or invented–them. Filled with life stories rather than rote advice, the essays in this anthology serve as a guide for anyone who has wanted to write seriously but thought they lacked the space or time. As Judith Ortiz Cofer writes, “The true artist will use her creativity to find a way, to carve the time, to claim a kitchen table, a library carrel. . . .”