An Interview with Jane Satterfield
Date of Review:
Nov.13.2010
Published Work:
Reviewer:
Lori A. May
Source:
The Poet's Quarterly
Why a memoir? Why Daughters of Empire?
I'm probably what you'd call an "accidental" memoirist. Although I've always loved reading memoir and have been drawn magnetically to any work of nonfiction by poets, I didn't initially "set out" to write one. I started writing essays in response to questions other women writers asked about my experience of pregnancy and birth in the UK and because Jamaica Kincaid's essay "On Seeing England for the First Time" struck me so forcefully: like it or not, I was a "daughter of empire" and I'd given birth to one.
Link to Full Review:
Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond
About Jane
Jane Satterfield, the recipient of a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, is the author of two poetry collections: Assignation at Vanishing Point (Elixir, 2003) and Shepherdess with an Automatic (WWPH, 2000). Her poetry has been...
Connections
Causes Jane Satterfield Supports
Associated Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
Association for Research on Mothering (ARM)
Jane’s Favorite Books
Jane Eyre, The English Patient, Mrs. Dalloway, Wuthering Heights, The Widening Spell of the Leaves