2023 COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note Awardee Feature of the Week:
Shelley Stoehr, Girls! Girls! Girls! (Creative Nonfiction), West Haven, CT
In Girls! Girls! Girls!, a recent college graduate struggles to make it as an artist while working as a stripper in 1990s New York and San Francisco.
“This book gives space to women in an often misunderstood occupation—sex work—and presses readers to confront their own othering of marginalized women.”
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