Sifting the Feminine: Essays on a Woman’s Body

Sifting the Feminine: Essays on a Woman’s Body examines how we define and understand femininity in relation to how we consider and treat women’s bodies.

ASHLEY ANDERSON has had essays, short stories, and scholarship appear in Quarter After Eight, Permafrost, Newfound, Tahoma Literary Review, Wraparound South, SLAB, Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, and other publications. Sifting the Feminine: Essays on a Woman’s Body was a semifinalist for the 2022 Santa Fe Writers Project’s Literary Arts Awards. Anderson has worked as an editorial assistant for The Cincinnati Review and is a memoir reader for Split Lip Magazine. She holds a PhD in English with a creative writing emphasis from the University of Missouri-Columbia, as well as degrees from the University of Cincinnati, Kent State University, and Ashland University. She currently teaches at the University of Missouri and lives in Columbia, where she makes a lot of crafts, drinks a lot of coffee, and listens to a lot of Taylor Swift.