off the margins pushes the boundaries of language, conventional form, blended genre, and prose flash, featuring women writers who fearlessly tell the truth and risk vulnerability to give voice to their experience. Together we are writing our collective history, considering what we know, and asking how we can craft our yet unwritten lives. We encourage dialogue between our writers and readers.

Linda J. Thomas

The resilient beauty of the natural world has always inspired me to create, to try to capture its magic and lessons. When writing, I also explore my memories of the people, places, and passages in my life. And I write to be part of a community—sharing our stories helps us understand how much we have…

Nancy Baillie Strong

I write to make sense of things about my life and relationships, and to remember where I have lived and those I have loved. I also write to give a voice to voiceless ones or those whose voices are unheard, and to speak out–at least on paper–about the crises of our times, both in this…

Margaret Adkins

Much of my writing focuses on home: not necessarily a physical space, but the place where we begin and end each day. When writing poetry, I am drawn to the seemingly insignificant moments of domesticity—moments considered small and forgettable that are so often swept away like dust…That which is so often considered too quiet, too…