Women’s Biographies Archives - Pownal Street Press
Why Not Me

Why Not Me

by | Apr 25, 2025

In this candid memoir, Lindsay Ireland evolves from an eleven-year-old girl, grappling with a devastating autoimmune diagnosis, into a young woman struggling to love a body that has continuously failed her. As she navigates adulthood, she confronts the compounding...
Are You Listening?

Are You Listening?

by | May 13, 2024

Are You Listening? is a journey of sound, sight and story. Using poems and stories, this memoir explores intergenerational displacement, and speaks the truths of a woman who loses her innocence at a young age due to cultural inequity, and is forced to navigate a...
On the Edge of Being

On the Edge of Being

by | Sep 26, 2023

“I felt connected to the street girls, as if our silent smiles spoke a thousand words between us.” Sometimes painful and at other times shocking, On the Edge of Being is still hopeful. The daughter of a progressive Afghan governor, author Sharifa Sharif...
Giaci and Me

Giaci and Me

by | Sep 26, 2023

2024 GOLD NONFICTION BOOK AWARD by the Nonfiction Authors Association In Giaci and Me, author and mother Rita Miceli shares the challenges and triumphs that came with her son Giaci’s autism diagnosis, from his early childhood to his late teen years and beyond. A...