Feb 20, 2020 | Fiona Zeller, Memoir, Nightingale, Uncategorized
While it’s a difficult story to tell, Zeller courageously conveys her experience and highlights the problems within rape culture that normalize sexual violence on college campuses. With careful description that carries the audience through Zeller’s...Feb 20, 2020 | Holly Hagman, Memoir, Nightingale, Uncategorized
In this response to our February prompt, a recipe for healing takes us through the process of leaving an abusive relationship and entering a healthy one, step by step. Hagman is excellently balanced between the general and the specific, knowing that the steps laid out...Feb 5, 2020 | Ellen Sauters, Memoir, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
In this response to our December and January prompt, Ellen Sauter discusses the strengthening anniversary of her survival. The piece opens in the midst of violence, but Sauter also shares the questions that came after. Over a process of coming to terms with trauma and...Feb 5, 2020 | All Authors, Laura Bristow, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
In this piece by Laura Bristow, we view a fishing trip as an allegory for an experience with sexual violence. With deft language, clever metaphor, and easy lyricism, she cuts into a relationship and reveals years of abuse the same way one would cut open a fish. It...Jan 22, 2020 | Katherine Page, Memory Piece, Nightingale, Prose, Uncategorized
Katherine Page revisits The Nightingale with a lovely portrait of a healing through traveling. She writes of finding strength as a survivor when she returns to Chicago, a city full of both positive and negative memories. She’s able to meet these memories, good...Jan 8, 2020 | Bobbie Groth, Megan Otto, Nightingale, Other, Uncategorized
Interview with Bobbie Groth by Nightingale Editor Megan Otto Bobbie Groth is an author, historian, and survivor of sexual violence. She is an accomplished interdisciplinary artist, having worked in both visual and literary mediums, and she has become a familiar...