Mawrters are prolific writers

ESTROGEN, INTERRUPTED by Rebecca Dunsmoor-Su ’94 and co-author Amy Voedisch is a comprehensive guide to perimenopause, a misunderstood and under-researched phase of women’s lives. The authors, ob-gyns and perimenopause experts, also host a podcast called “Ovaryactive.” (2026, Flatiron Books)

THE FURIES by Moira Egan ’84 offers fierce feminist reimaginings of familiar myths and narratives, from Arachne to Echo, from Medusa and Mary Magdalene to the female characters of The Odyssey, in verse that highlights the value of solidarity and collective strength among women. (2025, LSU Press)

GESTURAL LISTENING IN AND BEYOND THE CLASSROOM by Laura Feibush ’13, assistant professor of rhetoric and composition at Pennsylvania State University, investigates how students and instructors show that they are listening to each other — and, sometimes, that they are not. (2026 Utah State University Press)

INJUSTICE by Carol Leonnig ’87 and co-author Aaron C. Davis exposes not only the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine the Justice Department but also how delays in investigating Trump’s effort to overturn the will of voters under Attorney General Merrick Garland helped prevent the country from holding Trump accountable and enabled his return to power. (2025, Penguin Press)

AFRICA’S BUILDINGS by Itohan I. Osayimwese ’97 uncovers the vast scale of cultural displacement perpetrated by the West and proposes a new role for museums in this history, one in which they champion the repatriation of Africa’s architectural heritage and restitution for African communities. (2025, Princeton University Press)

INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE by Ada Palmer ’01 is a playful and irreverent look at why the lie that there are dark ages and golden ages has been so hard to eradicate. She also dives into the drama of the age of Machiavelli, the Borgias, popes, and kings to show how the crises of the past can give us hope for our present. (2025, University of Chicago Press)