SCN Authors

A growing number of Story Circle Network members have published their memoirs or memoir-related books (fiction- and non-fiction prose and poetry). If you're a member and have published a book about your life or a book that helps others share their life stories, let us know (at news@storycircle.org) so we can list you here.

• Ina Albert: Write Your Self Well: Journal Your Self to Health

• Susan Wittig Albert: Writing From Life: Telling Your Soul's Story
  (also see Susan's Books for a listing of her mystery novels)

• Susan Wittig Albert, Dayna Finet, editors: With Courage and Common Sense: Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles

• Shawn Alladio: short story, "Heavy Water: The Rescue of Ian Armstrong", published in Surfing's Greatest Misadventures: Dropping in on the Unexpected (edited by by Paul Diamond)

• Marvin V. Arnett: Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt

• Linda Austin: Cherry Blossoms in Twilight: Memories of a Japanese Girl

• Adele Azar-Rucquoi: Money as Sacrament: Finding the Sacred in Money

• Margaret Baacke: Tainted Blood? Memoir of a Part Jewish Girl in the Third Reich l933-1945

• Kathleen Baker: The Expressive Journal Writer's Notebook: Twenty-Five Exercises to Enliven Your Journal Writing

• Christina Baldwin: Life's Companion

• Marsha Barrow: Mrs. Chameleon and Her Chair

• Cindy Bellinger: Journaling for Women: Write, Doodle, Scribble! and Meet Yourself Up Close

• Deborah Berger, editor: Dear Mom: Women's Letters of Love, Loss, and Longing

• Joyce Muray Boatright: Telling Your Story

• Marsha Brandsdorfer: The Accidental Secretary

• Sharon Bray: A Healing Journey: Writing Together through Breast Cancer

• Marie Buckley: Quartet: four poetic voices

• Ann Cabot: Choose to Move: Stories, Advice, and Humor for Living Anywhere

• Heather Summerhayes Cariou: Sixtyfive Roses: A Sister's Memoir

• Glenys Carl: Hold My Hand: A Mother's Journey

• Liz Carpenter:
  • Unplanned Parenthood
  • Ruffles and Flourishes
  • Getting Better All the Time

• Barbara Youngblood Carr:
  • Dreamdancing with Ancestors
  • Counting Places in the Presence of Our Ancestors

• Edwina Carr-Jangarathis: In Their Own Words: Memoirs of the Members of St. George Greek Orthodox Church

• Sandra Crough: Memoirs of a Brown-Skin Gyal

• Rosemary Daniell:
  • Secrets of the Zona Rosa
  • The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself: Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way

• Jodi Davis: The Heart's Gift

• Emma Dawson: My Secret Life with a Sex Addict: From Discovery to Recovery

• Ernestine Donnell: Grandmother Said: A Memoir

• Rose Marie Dunphy, Mary Sullivan: That First Bite: Chance or Choice: A Working Guide Empowering Choice for Those With Eating Disorders

• Alora Mae Durden-Nelson: I Just Called Her Momma

• Robin Edgar:
  • Personal Legacies: Surviving the Great Depresssion
  • In My Mother's Kitchen: An Introduction to the Healing Power of Reminiscence

• Trudie M. Eklund:
  • Where Are My Hugs
  • Sisters Around the World: The Global Struggle for Female Equality

• Mary Faloon: The Fullness of Love, The Fullness of Life: Stories from Along the Way

• Patricia Fiske: Sacred Cycle; Lantana Lives

• Susie Kelly Flatau:
  • Counter Culture
  • From My Mother's Hands
  • Red Boots and Attitude

• Pat Flathouse: A Priceless Legacy: Writing the Stories of Your Family History

• Pat Flathouse, Catherine Cogburn, Susan Albert: Your Life, Your Story

• Betty Sue Flowers (and Bill Moyers): A World of Ideas: Conversations With Thoughtful Men and Women About American Life Today and the Ideas Shaping Our Future

• Sally Fugazi, Debbie Harwell: Candles in the Darkness: A True Story of Faith, Hope & Friendship

• Gene Garrison:
  • From Thunder to Breakfast
  • Widowhood Happens
  • JAVELINA! Have-uh-WHAT? (Have-uh-LEE-nah)

• Lynda Breckenridge Gaetano: Up~South, Spring

• Charlene Geiss & Claudia Jessup: Inner Outings: The Diarist's Deck of 33 Cards and Book of Exploration

• Joy Goodale: Butterflies Don't Sting

• Amy Gorman: Aging Artfully

• Florence C. Gould: Claiming Their Land: Women Homesteaders in Texas

• Peggy Grose: Love and Lemon Pie: Recipes for the Body and the Soul

• Alyce Guynn: Deal Me In

• Susan Hanson: Icons of Loss and Grace: Moments from the Natural World

• Patricia Harman: The Blue Cotton Gown: A Midwife's Memoir

• Debbie Harwell, Sally Fugazi: Candles in the Darkness: A True Story of Faith, Hope & Friendship

• Zara Houshmand, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: A Mirror Garden: A Memoir

• Jazz Jaeschke: Significance

• Sarah Jordan: The Boss Queen, Little Big Bark, and the Sentinel Pup

• Janis F. Kearney: Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir

• Betsy Kelleher:
  • MARES! (Ya Gotta LOVE 'em): Fifty Stories to Aid and Inspire Mare Owners
  • Sometimes a Woman Needs a Horse

• Karleen Koen:
  • Through A Glass Darkly
  • Dark Angels

• Khadijah Lacina: Cooking to Cure Breast Cancer Cookbook

• Penny J. Leisch:
  • Writing & Photography - A $Winning$ Combination
  • The Healing Touch of Horses: True Stories of Courage, Hope, and the Transformative Power of the Human/Equine Bond

• Ann Linnea: Deep Water Passage

• Deborah Hansen Linzer: Cameo Life Stories: Writing Guide for Everywoman

• Sharon Lippincott: The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing

• Elsa Eysenbach McKeithan, Ph.D.: Writing the Stories of Your Life: How to Turn Memories into Memoir

• Marcy Meffert: Madam Mayor: How I Learned to Love Government and Hate Politics in 10 Intriguing Years

• Deborah Morgan: Writing Out Loud

• Phyllis Moses: Orville, Wilbur and Me: Magic at Kitty Hawk

• Linda Joy Myers:
  • Becoming Whole: Writing Your Healing Story
  • Don't Call Me Mother

• Lisa Dale Norton: Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills

• Tracy Pace: "War Music" (CD), Poet on Zero Street (autobiographical poetry chapbook)

• Patricia Pando:
  • Stirring up memories all the times
  • Claiming Their Land: Women Homesteaders in Texas

• Angie Pedersen:
  • The Book of Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking About Yourself
  • Growing Up Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking Childhood Stories
  • The Book Of Us: A Guide to Scrapbooking About Relationships

• Patti Pfeiffer: Bearing the Big H: A Hormonal Journey on the Hysterectomy Highway

• PJ Pierce: Let Me Tell You What I've Learned: Texas WiseWomen Speak

• Nan Phifer: Memoirs of the Soul: Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography

• EJ Phillips: Woman: What She Has Done With Where She Has Been

• Diana Raab:
  • My Muse Undresses Me
  • Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal

• Reda Rackley:
  • "The Grapefruit" (short story): Kiss Me Goodnight: Stories and Poems by Women Who Were Girls When Their Mothers Died (edited by Ann O Fallon & Margaret Vaillancourt)
  • Mud, Blood, & Blackberries: Stories to Honor Our Ancestors

• Claudia Reder: My Father and Miro

• Donna Remmert:
  • Littlest Big Kid
  • The Jitterbug Girl

• Linda Reynolds: Butterflies Don't Sting

• Janet Riehl: Sightlines: A Poet's Diary

• Sherryl Rogers (pen name Ja Adams): Chameleon

• Emily Rosen: Memories Milestones and Memoirs: Selections from a Writing Workshop

• Marlene Samuels: The Seamstress: A Memoir of Survival

• Judith Scheffler: Beyond the Corner Office: Essays by NineWomen

• Jan Seale:
  • Airlift
  • Homeland
  • The Yin of It
  • A Nuts and Bolts Guide to Writing Your Life Story

• Kathy Sparrow: On the Mother Lagoon: Fly Fishing and the Spiritual Journey

• Michelle Stacy: Letters to Mom

• Sherri Stanczak: From the Heart of a Mother

• Marlys Marshall Styne:
  • Reinventing Myself: Memoirs of a Retired Professor
  • Seniorwriting: A Brief Guide for Seniors Who Want to Write

• Mary Sullivan, Rose Marie Dunphy: That First Bite: Chance or Choice: A Working Guide Empowering Choice for Those With Eating Disorders

• Mary Sullivan: What Image am I as a Woman of Prayer?

  She also co-wrote a book titled That First Bite: Chance or Choice, which sells at $7.95 plus postage and can also be ordered from the above address.

• Cameo Victor: Self-Guided Tour through the State of Happiness, also a tarot deck

• Irene Watson: The Sitting Swing

• E. J. "Samadhi" Whitehouse: Circles in the Sand

• Sharon Wildwind:
  • Dreams that Blister Sleep
  • Some Welcome Home
  • First Murder in Advent

• Linda Wisniewski: Off Kilter: A Woman's Journey to Peace With Scoliosis, Her Mother, & Her Polish Heritage

• Jackie Woolley: All the Things You Aren't...Yet

• Paula Stallings Yost, Personal Historian:
  • Tales of a Scrapper
  • Profile of a Lone Star Legacy
  • Truth and Integrity
  • A Country Cowboy
  • Cooking Up the Memories
  • Miracles on the Amazon