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.

Tina Rapp

I want to share my experiences honestly so other women won’t feel so alone when faced with circumstances that require them to be unselfishly supportive to others while they struggle to stay true to themselves and have a life of their own choosing. It feels like a never-ending story for women, and I want to…

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…