“… In the same manner of believing in women writers’ inner truths, in her book, Dragstripping, out from the University of Pittsburgh Press, August ’24, she similarly synthesizes her characters in seismic pillars between light and dark to do the same. She creates unique, often violent universes where women characters can shake the calm veil of their subconscious and conditioning. In doing so, they take risks beyond the traditional passive narrative, rescripting the ecstatic into open forms of possibility and self-advocacy. …” (intro)

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