Review Team

Susan Wittig Albert, Ph.D., Editor

       
Susan Wittig Albert     Susan Wittig Albert, Co-Editor. In 1985, I left my career as a university professor and administrator and began working fulltime as a novelist and freelance writer. For the past 16 years, I've written the China Bayles herbal mysteries, and for the past five, a series of historical fantasies called The Cottage Tales, featuring Beatrix Potter. With my husband, Bill Albert, writing as Robin Paige, I coauthored a dozen historical mysteries set in Victorian-Edwardian England and over sixty books for young readers. I have also edited two anthologies for the Story Circle Network: With Courage and Common Sense (2004) and What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest (2007).

I've also written nonfiction. In 1992, I published Work of Her Own, a study of women who left their careers, and in 1997, Writing From Life: Telling Your Soul's Story, for women memoirists. That book led to the founding of the Story Circle Network, which encourages women to write about their lives. I helped to create the first edition of the Story Circle Book Review website and am delighted to be involved in its relaunch. You can find out more about my work at my website and get a look into the life of a working writer by reading my blog. Bill and I have lived in the Texas Hill Country for over twenty years, with a varying assortment of cows, sheep, geese, ducks, chickens, pigs, dogs, and cats.

  1. Bodman, Karna Small. Gambit

  2. Buyer, Laurie Wagner. Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicles

  3. Carpenter, Liz. Getting Better All the Time

  4. Carpenter, Liz. Ruffles and Flourishes: The Warm and Tender Story of a Simple Girl Who Found Adventure in the White House

  5. Carpenter, Liz. Unplanned Parenthood: The Confessions of a Seventy-Something Surrogate Mother

  6. Clark, Marilyn Snethen, Barbara Snethen Leonard, Carol Snethen Reed. Outside the Fence: Stories of an Army Officer's Kids and WWII POW Camps

  7. Conway, Jill Ker. When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography

  8. DeSalvo, Louise. Vertigo; Writing as a Way of Healing

  9. Ehrlich, Elizabeth. Miriam's Kitchen

  10. Ehrlich, Gretel. A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning

  11. Flatau, Susie Kelly. Counter Culture Texas

  12. Garfield, Charles, Cindy Spring, Sedonia Cahill. Wisdom Circles: A Guide to Self-Discovery and Community Building in Small Groups

  13. Goldberg, Bonni. Room to Write: Daily Invitations to a Writer's Life

  14. Hasselstrom, Linda. Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work

  15. Hasselstrom, Linda, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis. Leaning Into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West

  16. Holstein, Dr. Barbara Becker. The Enchanted Self: A Positive Therapy

  17. Horan, Nancy. Loving Frank

  18. Hudson, Kathleen. Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs

  19. Lear, Linda. Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature

  20. Legler, Gretchen. On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica

  21. Lindbergh, Reeve. Forward from Here: Leaving Middle Age—and Other Unexpected Adventures

  22. Linnea, Ann. Deep Water Passage: A Spiritual Journey at Midlife

  23. Linzer, Deborah Hansen. Cameo Life Stories: Writing Guide for Everywoman

  24. Lydon, Susan Gordon. The Knitting Sutra: Thoughts on Handcrafts, Nature and Spirit

  25. Mairs, Nancy. A Dynamic God: Living an Unconventional Catholic Faith

  26. Mann, Reva. The Rabbi's Daughter

  27. McDonnell, Jane Taylor. Living to Tell the Tale

  28. Norris, Gunilla. Journeying in Place: Reflections from a Country Garden

  29. Perry, Susan K., Ph.D. Writing In Flow: Keys to Enhanced Creativity

  30. Phillips, EJ. Woman: What She Has Done With Where She Has Been

  31. Raab, Diana M. Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal

  32. Rehak, Melanie. Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

  33. Reichl, Ruth. Tender at the Bone

  34. Rose, Phyllis. The Norton Book of Women's Lives

  35. Schlosser, Katherine K., editor. The Herb Society of America's Essential Guide to Growing and Using Herbs

  36. Scot, Barbara J. Prairie Reunion

  37. Segalove, Ilene and Paul Bob Velick. List Your Self: Listmaking as the Way to Self-Discovery

  38. Strasser, Judith. Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life

  39. Terzian, Mary. The Immigrants' Daughter: A Private Battle to Earn the Right to Self-Actualization

  40. Van Gelder, Leslie. Weaving a Way Home: A Personal Journey Exploring Place and Story

  41. Weimer, Joan. Awestruck: A Skeptic's Pilgrimage

  42. Wildwind, Sharon Grant. Dreams that Blister Sleep: A Nurse in Vietnam

  43. Woodman, Marion. Leaving My Father's House: A Journey to Conscious Femininity

  44. Young, Carrie. Nothing to Do but Stay: My Pioneer Mother

  45. Zackheim, Victoria, editor. For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance