Thanks to “Drunken Boat” and editor T.M. De Vos, the Romani Folio is published online! I am truly honored to be in this issue alongside Jessica Reidy, Allison Williams, Qristina Zavačková Cummings, and so many other wonderful writers. And those stunning skirts by chirikli collective’s Hedina Tahirović-Sijerčić and Lynn Hutchinson Lee! To my knowledge, this is the only literary collection of Romani-American writers–something I hope will be remedied by other lit mags and perhaps a press or two–and I am going to sit down now and savor it. Please join me!
The link: http://www.drunkenboat.com/db22/romani
http://www.drunkenboat.com/db22/romani/chirikli-collective-hedina-tahirović-sijerčić-and-lynn-hutchinson-lee
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Glenda Bailey-Mershon is the author of the novel Eve’s Garden (Twisted Road, 2014), the story of three generations of Romani women surviving in North Georgia, USA, during the 1960s. She is also the author of Weaver’s Knot: Poems (Finishing Line Press, forthcoming 2023) and other poetry titles, including sa-co-ni-ge/blue smoke: poems from the Southern Appalachians (Jane’s Stories) and Bird Talk: Poems (Wild Dove). A founder of the nonprofit, Jane’s Stories Press Foundarion, which presents the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature, she edited four of their anthologies, the latest being Bridges and Borders, featuring immigrant women writers.
Weaver's Knot by Glenda Bailey-Mershon 