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Awards: Gold Medal in College Nonfiction and Bronze Medal in Women's Studies

August 19, 2017
Read more about the awards here.
I'm delighted to announce that A Medieval Woman's Companion: Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages has been awarded a number of honors.

Winner: Gold Medal in College Nonfiction from Literary Classics as well as being awarded a Seal of Approval.

Their review calls the book “Compelling…fascinating.”

It was  Read More 
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Book Award Finalist for "Grendel's Mother"!

May 9, 2017
2016 Wishing Shelf Book Award finalist in the category of Adult Fiction
I already felt blessed since Grendel's Mother had won the Words on Wings Book Award for young adult fiction, a Literary Classics Top Honors Award 2016. Additionally, it was a finalist for the 2014-2015 Sarton Literary Award for Historical Fiction and Finalist for Foreward Reviews' 2015 Indiefab Book of  Read More 
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New Review of The Literature of Waste

April 26, 2017
Click here to find out more about this book
[M]y understanding of waste has been greatly expanded by Susan Signe Morrison’s The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter....I think her book can help bring readers to a better understanding of waste....Her final two chapters on source reduction and reuse articulate a clear vision of how poetry  Read More 
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Celebrating International Woman's Day with a Lovely Review of "A Medieval Woman's Companion"

March 16, 2017
Many thanks to Sandra and her team for producing such a beautiful magazine and website, Medievalists.net.
"Morrison does a superb job of making medieval women accessible to mainstream audiences." Thanks to The Medieval Magazine for this lovely review of A Medieval Woman's Companion on International Woman's Day 2017.

Sandra Alvarez writes, "[I]it is an excellent book for readers who want a good starting point on  Read More 
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Book Award Finalist in 3 Categories

March 16, 2017
Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in 3 categories: Adult Nonfiction; Women’s Studies; and Young Adult Nonfiction.
A Medieval Woman's Companion has been chosen as a Finalist for the 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in 3 categories: Adult Nonfiction; Women’s Studies; and Young Adult Nonfiction.
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“Old English is Mine!”: Diversity and Old English

November 5, 2016
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A postdoctoral research fellow at Penn, Nahir, who has her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, studies medieval literature and culture.
Old English belongs to us all, no matter what our background or where we come from. This proclamation rings out in a beautiful poem I’m delighted to share with you by Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, currently Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Comparative Literature and Classics at the University of Pennsylvania. Click on the  Read More 
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World War II Woman Pilot Buried at Arlington Cemetery

November 5, 2016
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Elaine D. Harmon
Read about how WASPs, members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots, can at last be buried at Arlington Cemetery. Elaine D. Harmon was interred on Wednesday, September 7, 2016, at Arlington Cemetery, the first WASP to be so honored.
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“Grendel’s Mother” wins Top Honor Award!

November 5, 2016
Delighted to have won a top honors award from Literary Classics! Read their interview with me here.
I was so excited to go to Las Vegas this past week for the Literary Classics awards ceremony. Grendel’s Mother won the Top Honors award for Young Adult literature.

The award, Words on Wings Book Award, “recognizes distinguished fiction for a young adult audience.” I was thrilled to receive  Read More 
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Chicago and Baseball: Compassionate Community

November 5, 2016
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Wrigley Field in 1935
I was excited that the Cubs won the World Series. I saw them as a kid when I went to visit my grandparents in Chicago. Baseball shows up in the diaries of my mom, Joan, in the 1930s and 1940s. It sparks a moment of communion with a young man whose leg has been  Read More 
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Website with 1200 Years of Women Composers

November 5, 2016
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Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer Kassia (c.810–before 867)
Listen to over 900 pieces of music by women, including Kassia, the Byzantine abbess, and Hildegard von Bingen.
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