Rachel León
Rachel León is a writer, editor, and social worker. Her work has appeared in BOMB, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Catapult, The Millions, and elsewhere.
Shayne Terry’s Leave: A Postpartum Account isn’t exactly a memoir, but tells of her heinous postpartum experience involving a painful obstetric anal sphincter injury. Leave isn’t Terry processing her experiences (she did that in therapy), but rather transforming what happened to her into art.
Rather than simply compiling these experiences into a ‘tell-all,’ Margo Steines examines and contextualizes them within a broader cultural framework with incredible insight in her debut memoir, Brutalities: A Love Story. The result is a mesmerizing and masterful exploration of violence, power, pain, and ultimately, care.
