Go to Register to learn how to Watch the Livestream or Attend in Person
Writer/actor Betty MacDonald contributed to the writing of and performed in TMI’s What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting. Her essay “Before Roe v. Wade” appears in the anthology Get Out of My Crotch! Her work is included in the anthologies 80 Things to Do When You Turn 80, Open House, Better With Age, and Lightwood, an online magazine. Betty presented her essay “First Love,” at the Cell Theatre in New York City and at Vassar College. Videos of her essays “First Love”, “Daughter of Twins”, “Not Jewish Enough”, and “I’m Not a Woman of My Age!” are available at WritersRead.org. Betty’s essay,“First Love” is included in WritersRead’s recently released anthology Well Said Well Read.
Gail Straub is the author of eight books, including the best-selling Empowerment, coauthored with her husband, David Gershon, and translated into fourteen languages; the critically acclaimed The Rhythm of Compassion; her feminist memoir Returning to My Mother’s House; the fairy tale Réveil . . . and the Old One at the Edge of the World; and, most recently, her award-winning nature writings The Ashokan Way and Solace and Sanctuary in collaboration with the artist Kate McGloughlin. Gail’s books have garnered three Nautilus Silver Medal Awards as well as three Foreword Reviews Book Awards.
