Janice Erlbaum

I didn't set out to write a book with no real male characters, but men were not important to my narrator, who…

— Janice Erlbaum

I remain an active volunteer in the field of at-risk youth, so I'm pretty familiar with the landscape as it stands now,…

— Janice Erlbaum

Kyria Abrahams, former teen bride of a doomsday cult and seeker of salvation in slam poetry, tells the terribly funny story of…

— Janice Erlbaum

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The…

— Janice Erlbaum

Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt…

— Janice Erlbaum

Anybody who severs their own Achilles tendon, takes blood thinners to induce a hospital stay , or beats themselves with their fists…

— Janice Erlbaum

Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but…

— Janice Erlbaum

Those of us who obsess over every word and action are constantly recalling past events, but that doesn't make them any less…

— Janice Erlbaum

I feel a lot of sympathy for the young women I've written about, including Younger Janice. I think that all of them…

— Janice Erlbaum