Reading Aimee LaBrie’s award-winning collection, Rage and Other Cages, is like hanging out with a whip-smart best friend who can read a room and throw out a zinger while everyone else is still shrugging off their coats. Unfiltered, cringy, hilarious, LaBrie’s stories center on women who can no longer contain the stew of regret, fear…

For the past decade, Ladette Randolph has illuminated aspects of the human condition in Nebraskan spaces — stoicism in the face of loss, the embrace of hard physical labor, faith as a source of both comfort and subjugation. The women in her narratives suppress their individuality, believing that they exist to support the agendas of…

A mantra thrums through the pages of A Girl Goes Into The Forest: No one can deter a person from her mistakes. Young women on the verge, on the cusp of becoming, with each generation tying their future to a man. Because they long for the world out there and mistakenly believe that he knows the…