Emily Lake Hansen ’08
Home and Other Duty Stations
Home and Other Duty Stations (Kelsay Books, 2020) is a poetry collection that explores belonging and identity by drawing from my military childhood.
In the opening poem “Brat,” I write, “what is home if you have / to remake it?” and in the poems that follow, I wrestle with questions of home, lineage, and the body.
Emily Lake Hansen (she/her) is a fat, queer, and invisibly disabled writer and the author of the poetry collection Home and Other Duty Stations (Kelsay Books) as well as two chapbooks.
Her poetry and essays have appeared in 32 Poems, OxMag, Hayden’s Ferry Review, CALYX, So to Speak, SWWIM, and the South Carolina Review among others. A recent finalist for the Page Prize for Nonfiction and the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Book Award, Emily lives in Atlanta where she teaches first-year writing as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech.
Lee Butler McWaters ’92
Belt Lines
Belt Lines is a compilation of 155 Poems about the Atlanta Beltline. Written over a five year period.
Lee Butler retired after teaching English for 22 years. Over time she has worn any hats-including the ones she designs and sells-and explored multiple venues for artistic expression. In her latest such endeavor, she creates characters and designs and sews their costumes for competition at DragonCon, the world’s largest cosplaying convention.
Now Lee is working on her next book of poetry about her mother and grandmother-Hazel and Faye-both of them like Lee, English teachers and seamstresses.
Martha Wallace ’14
A Sampling of Life, One Taste at a Time
This food memoir is written by a first-generation Woodruff Scholar.
With insight, wit, common sense, and mouth-watering descriptions, comes a food memoir that takes place over many years, on different continents, and at kitchen tables across the Deep South and Midwestern America.
Part cookbook, part time machine, family recipes for Pig Pickin’ Cake, savory rib roast, hot sticky wings, Myesha’s Grape Salad and the stories behind them are shared – these are but a few of the dishes in a juicy repertoire that begins in the author’s childhood.
Wallace takes readers on flights to exciting destinations in Spain and Ghana; however, her life is far from being a cakewalk. Her memoir is interwoven with painful and poignant moments, like her mother’s death and disappearance of her beloved brother Tone Tone, who she’s still searching for in between bites, sips and chapters.
A Sampling of Life: One Taste at a Time invites the reader to prepare its dishes and sink their teeth into what it means to recreate wonderful meals shared with elders,, siblings and friends…and if you happen to come across Tone tone, the author’s long lost brother, be sure to tell him there is an empty placeholder at Martha’s table.
