Vol 4 No 1 2010

Other People’s Histories: Ownership and Appropriation in Nonfiction

Jane Satterfield is the author of Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond (Demeter Press, 2009) and two books of poetry: Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir, 2003) and Shepherdess with an Automatic (WWPH, 2000). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, three Maryland State Arts Council grants in poetry, and the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society’s Gold Medal for the Essay. Her work has been anthologized in White Ink: Poems about Mothers and Mothering (Demeter Press), Sweeping Beauty: Contemporary Women Poets on Housekeeping (University of Iowa Press) and the forthcoming Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets (Southern Illinois University Press). Satterfield is the literary editor for the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering and lives in Baltimore where she teaches at Loyola University.

Jane Satterfield

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