In " Embrace Your Body: A Guide to Self-Love and Body Appreciation," readers are invited on a transformative journey of self-discovery and empowerment. In a world that often dictates narrow standards of beauty, this book serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration for those seeking to break free from societal expectations and embrace their bodies with love and confidence.Through a series of insightful chapters, readers explore the complex relationship between body image, self-esteem...

In " Embrace Your Body: A Guide to Self-Love and Body Appreciation," readers are invited on a transformative journey of self-discovery and empowerment. In a world that often dictates narrow standards of beauty, this book serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration for those seeking to break free from societal expectations and embrace their bodies with love and confidence.Through a series of insightful chapters, readers explore the complex relationship between body image, self-esteem...

The Fall 2021 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2021 Issue of Ploughshares, edited by Ladette Randolph, features nine longform pieces by Leslie Kirk Campbell, Afsh...

“Already, as a boy, I was connected to the bitter ocean, and to murderers who believed that they could control the powers of nature.”Yxta Maya Murray is a novelist, art critic, playwright, and law professor. The author of nine books, her most recent are the story collection The World Doesn’t Work That Way, but It Could (University of Nevada Press, 2020) and the novel Art Is Everything (TriQuarterly Press, 2021). She has won a Whiting Award and an Arts Writers Grant, and has been na...