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A collection of nonfiction works by women writers from throughout the United States and Canada. These works focus on living with the five interconnected, freshwater seas that we know as the Great Lakes. Contributing to this collection are renowned poets, essayists, and fiction writers, all of whom live and work in the Midwest, amid the fresh waters of the Great Lakes, many hundreds of rivers, and their own creative streams of consciousness: Loraine Anderson, Judith Arcana, Rachel Azima, Mary Blocksma, Gayle Boss, Sharon Oilworth, Beth Ann Fennelly, Linda Nemec Foster, Gail Griffin, Rasma Haidri, Aleta Karstad, Laura Kasischke, Janet Kauffman, Jacqueline Kolosov, Susan Laidlaw, Lisa Lenzo, Linda Loomis, Anna Mills, Stephanie Mills, Judith Minty, Anne-Marie Oomen, Rachael Perry, Susan Power, Virginia Sanderson, Donna Seaman, Heather Sellers, Gail Louise Siegel, Sue William Silverman, Claudia Skutar, Annick Smith, Leslie Stainton, Kathleen Stocking, Judith Strasser, Alison Swan, Elizabeth A. Trembley, Jane Urquhart, Diane Wakoski, Alinda Dickinson Wasner, and Leigh Allison Wilson.