Gila Lyons' work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Morning News, Ploughshares, Tablet, The Forward, and other publications. She lives in Boston, where she teaches writing and is at work on a memoir. Links to her work can be found at gilalyons.com
As an essayist who often writes from personal experience and who’s working on a memoir, I believe deeply it is a feminist act for women to tell their stories.