From the Editor

Chaos, Conflict, and Creativity by Margaret E. Wagner, Editor-in-Chief

NonFiction

Making Room by Tutt Stapp-McKiernan 🎧

Enough Already by Sandra Butler 🎧

Her Wild and Precious Life by Anne L. Rooney

You Don’t Look Like the Tooth Fairy by Sherry Moon 🎧

The Prince of Baton Rouge by Orleans Saltos

After Years, Still Speaking by Elizabeth Rose 🎧

Waking Thoughts from January 3, 2016 by Julia MacDonnell

A Letter to the Staff at the Nursing Home Where I Will Reside If I Lose My Mind by Sharon Goldberg 🎧

Fiction

Still Here by Babette Gallard 🎧

Two Views by Debra Burns

Regrets by Vivienne Muller 🎧

Household Hints by Hillary Adrienne Stern

Design Inspiration by Paula Bernstein 🎧

Alpha and Omega: Two Short Fiction Pieces by Shirlee Jellum

Back of the Book

We Are What Our Lives Have Made Us by Jean Zorn, Publisher

The Creative Life

She Lived Across the Hall by Lee Moskof

My Mother, the Writer by Marla Fogelman

Older Women Poets by Noelle Sterne

Poetry

The Poetry of Barbara Kingsolver: Interview and Poetry Reading
Interview by Cynthia Hogue, Poetry Editor
Poetry by Barbara Kingsolver

Art

The Multi-Faceted Art of Irene Clark by Greta Berman, Art Editor

Short Takes

The Cultures of Childhood
Introduction by Linda Barrett Osborne, Short Takes Editor
Prose and Poetry by Carol Barrett, Sharon Brandon, Mary D. Chaffee, Janice Dilbeck, Meredith Escudier, Elvira M. Franco, Terri Glass, Kathleen Granchelli, Elisabeth Hanscombe, Marcia E. Herman-Giddens, Sue Johnson, Kate McCarroll Moore, Terry O’Shaughnessy, Nancy Schimmel, Joan Hyams Schmitz, Deborah K. Shepherd, ckSlack, Barbara Stevenson, Patricia Wagner Wentworth, Tanya Young
Art by Doris Brigitte Ash, Susan Pollet, Nanilee Robarge, Janet Ruth, Merry Song, Kari Uhlman, Arlene Goldbard

Persimmon Tree Forum

Challenging Chaos
Introduction by Margaret Wagner, Editor-in-Chief
Entries by Suzanne S. Austin-Hill, Susan Baskin, Gail Ann Duberchin, Jacqueline Courteau, Karen Elias, Karen FitzGerald, Colleen Flannery, Julia Griffin, Elena Harap, Ronnie Hess, Pat Jablonski, Lucy Jerue, Martha Ellen Johnson, Paula Lechten, Pat Mullarkey, Kathy Nicarry, Rosetta Radtke, Sandy Reavey, Ellen Reichman, Claire Reutter, Judith Ross, Barbara A. Rouillard, Lauren K. Shenfield, Lynn Sikkink, Corinne Walsh
Photographs by Merry Song

Illustrations by Sally Buffington, Doris Brigitte Ash, Helen Bar-Lev, Sharon Brandon, Susan Burgess-Lent, Rachel E. Brown, Sheree Stewart Combs, Gail Entrekin, Jill Fortney, Gerburg Garmann, Arlene Goldbard, Elaine Croce Happnie, Judith Eloise Hooper [1] [2], Beth Kanell, Jennifer O’Neill Pickering [1] [2], Susan Pollet, Nanilee Robarge, Janet Ruth, Sherry Shahan, Judi Silvano, Marcella Peralta Simon, Carrie Stein, Merry Song [1] [2], Kari Uhlman
Edited by Carrie Stein and Jean Zorn