By Erin Wood
Are you ready to meet fifty Arkansas women who will challenge the way you think about identity, entrepreneurialism, community, and what it takes to lead a creative life?
Through my book, Women Make Arkansas: Conversations with 50 Creatives (April, 2019), I’m excited to share my conversations with women of diverse and dynamic pursuits including Hot Springs kombucha brewer Jenny Lively and soap maker Briana Moore, the Arkansas Poet Laureate, a fire performer, a film production designer, a hatter, a drag queen, an aspiring time traveler, the state’s first certified chocolatier, and a ceramicist who has made more than one hundred thousand blades of porcelain grass.
Together, these women bravely reveal how they quiet negative voices (whether from critics’ mouths or inside their own heads), channel their intuition, and work hard as hell to bear out their visions. The failures, victories, and wisdom of these bold creatives will open you to infinite possibilities on the way to your own creative freedom.
An 8.5 x 11 paperback with more than 250 color images, Women Make Arkansas is available at etaliapress.com and through local and major booksellers. It will be part of the 2019 Arkansas Literary Festival. Order now for yourself, as the perfect Mother’s Day gift, or to encourage the creative in your life.
A Hot Springs native, Erin Wood is a writer, editor, and publisher in Little Rock. She owns and runs Et Alia Press (etaliapress.com). Wood is author of Women Make Arkansas: Conversations With 50 Creatives (April, 2019) and editor of and a contributor to Scars: An Anthology (2015)
