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Author_Bailey Gaylin Moore
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conservative places
cosmology
Creative Nonfiction
Creative Writing
critical race theory
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essay collection
Female Author
female experience
female identity
feminist theory
gun policy
Identity and Home
intersectional feminism
Memoir
motherdaughter relationships
motherhood
national policy
Ozarks
Ozarks culture
Ozarks politics
Religion
religious trauma
reproductive rights
Reproductive rights in Missouri
Teenage Pregnancy
Violence Against Women
Woman Author
women's rights
women's writing
women’s rights
women’s writing
Product details
- ISBN 9781496241931
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2025
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Urgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, and young motherhood in the conservative and religious landscape of the Ozarks. Using cosmology as a foil to discuss human issues, Bailey Gaylin Moore describes praying to the sky during moments of despondency, observing a solar eclipse while reflecting on what it means to be in the penumbra of society, and using galaxy identification to understand herself. During a collision of women’s rights, gun policy, and racial tension, Thank You for Staying with Me is a frank and intimate rumination on how national policy and social attitudes affect both the individual and the public sphere, especially in such a conservative part of the United States.
Bailey Gaylin Moore is an Ozarks-based writer who lives with her husband and son in the heart of Missouri, where she is amassing a plant collection for her cat to shamelessly destroy. She serves as the editor in chief for the online nonfiction series Past Ten, which asks contributors to consider where and who they were ten years ago. Her work has appeared in AGNI Magazine, Pleiades, Wigleaf, Willow Springs, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other journals. Thank You for Staying with Me is her debut essay collection.
