Old Enough

Southern Women Artists and Writers on Creativity and Aging

In Old Enough, twenty-one women artists and writers write about the experience of aging. However, all are still driven to create and to investigate, to stay committed to the processes that work while finding new ways to stay creatively alive.

In Old Enough, twenty-one women artists and writers write about the experience of aging. Gay, straight, unmarried, partnered, widowed, Black, white, Latinx, retired, and working, these women are not squeamish about the challenges of growing older, including ageism, health concerns, and loss. And they are frank about how received notions of female aging can be restrictive and diminishing. But in lyrical, sometimes wry, often inspiring essays they explore what growing older can offer: self-knowledge, insight, and acceptance. Striking portraits by award-winning photographer Carolyn Sherer, who is also a contributor to the volume, accompany each essay.

At the heart of this invigorating collection is the bold championing of creative practice. Some contributors look back to their girlhood to recall their first powerful connections to art, while others show how they have refreshed their commitment to maintaining a practice. However, all are still driven to create and to investigate, to stay committed to the processes that work while finding new ways to stay creatively alive. Old Enough aims to honor the limitless variety, depth, and scope of being “old enough” and will resonate with readers who want to understand and find purpose, meaning, and comradery in their creative journey.

Contributor: Jay Lamar (Edited by), Jennifer Horne (Edited by), Katie Lamar Jackson (With), Wendy Reed (With), Gail Andrews (Contributions by), Katie Lamar Jackson (Contributions by), Sara Garden Armstrong (Contributions by), Carmen Agra Deedy (Contributions by), Janisse Ray (Contributions by), Wendy Reed (Contributions by), Carolyn Sherer (Contributions by), Anne Strand (Contributions by), Jeanie Thompson (Contributions by), Jacqueline Allen Trimble (Contributions by), Lila Quintero Weaver (Contributions by), Yvonne Wells (Contributions by), Patricia Foster (Contributions by), Patricia Gaines (Contributions by), Mary Gauthier (Contributions by), Patti Callahan Henry (Contributions by), Jennifer Horne (Contributions by), Angela Jackson-Brown (Contributions by), Jay Lamar (Contributions by), Carolyn Sherer (Photographs by), Nevin Mercede (Contributions by), Cecilia Rodriguez Milanés (Contributions by)

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