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.

Maggie Martin

In my desire to share my stories, I created a body of work that would go out into the world and touch the lives of others, especially women, who would read or hear what I had written, and find their own life experiences echoed in mine. I had become, in my own small way, part…

Cai Yingming

Writing poetry is the process of my death and my resurrection. Writing poetry is like I travel from the earth to the moon, and from the moon to the constellation Ursa Major…Writing poetry is like I walk toward my end and my beginning. I obtain peace and tranquility like the sea and moonlight after expressing…

Elizabeth Brannigan

From the start I have learned that confidence is the most important aspect to embody when you are a writer. I wasn’t going to be successful unless I believed in myself. The process of becoming a writer was difficult for me, as I had to realize self-worth and self-love in order to grow. If you…