Words Right Now

To counter Vice's "Last Words," a photo essay of women writers at their last moments, this Tumblr is for images of women writers who are alive RIGHT NOW, writing and being awesome.

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M. Craig

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Crissy Gardner

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Deena Nyer Mendlowitz Writer. Improviser, Shock therapy alumnus. Alive.

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Leah Umanskyis a poet, teacher, artist, writer, Mad Men enthusiast and curates t

he COUPLET reading series. Her first book of poems, Domestic Uncertainties, is out now by Blazevox.

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Pattie Flint; very much alive. She spends her days as an editor for Medusa's Laugh press, specializing in hand-bound anthologies. Her nights are spent as an editor for Bitterzoet magazine, and as a poet. 

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Author of House Where a Woman (Autumn House Press). Alive!

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Your charming hostess, on assignment in Stockholm back in May. Very alive (although pretty tired at that moment)

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Megan Kaminski, author of Desiring Map (Coconut Books, 2012). Alive and well. 

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Connie Schultz. Columnist, author, activist for journalism.

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Sharon Mesmer, alive in her current form since 1960, baby!  

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Stacy Szymaszek - Poet, Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church. Living it.

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In it for the long haul.  Still.  Alive. And kicking! And writing!

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Sarah Cook & J. Jean Teed / poets / collaborators / candlepin bowlers / alive in technicolor

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Human, Writer, Activist, Alive and Well.

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Caitlin Grace McDonnell, poet, teacher, mother, alive, eating soup.

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Carina Finn, author of LEMONWORLD & Other Poems. Not dead. 

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Wendy Ellis. Writer. Alive. And kicking.