In a special edition of Reading Women, we’re featuring women from Cleveland, Ohio! Kendra Winchester talks Raechel Anne Jolie, author of Rust Belt Femme, and Eliese Colette Goldbach, author of Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit, about their memoirs, and Reading Women co-host Sachi Argabright shares her experience growing up and living in the greater Cleveland area.
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Books Mentioned
Raechel Recommends
Adrian Murray Brown
Eliese Recommends
Anne Trubek, Belt Publishing
Sachi Recommends
Author Bios
Eliese Colette Goldbach received an MFA in nonfiction from the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program. Her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, Western Humanities Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and Best American Essays 2017. She received the Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Award and a Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant from the Ohioana Library Association, which is given to a young Ohio writer of promise. She lives in Cleveland, OH, with her husband.
Raechel Anne Jolie is a writer, educator, and media maker living in Minneapolis. She received her PhD in Communication Studies with a minor in Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her writing has been published in numerous academic journals as well as in Teen Vogue, Bitch Magazine, In These Times, among others. Rust Belt Femme is her first book. You can find her @rebelgrrlraechel or at www.raechelannejolie.com.
Music by Isaac Greene