Janet's next book, Impervious: Chronicles of a (semi-)Retired Deviant, was published this spring by SinCyr Publishing!
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Full-length books by SMC MFA Alumni
Read fellow alumni books, check out where they are publishing and most importantly, celebrate each other's successes.
What kind of work are they publishing? Some have published young adult, middle grade, graphic novels. Some are New York Times bestsellers. Some have won prestigious poetry prizes. Read about them here.
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Janet W. Hardy, MFA Nonfiction '08
Janet W. Hardy is the author or coauthor of twelve groundbreaking books about relationships and sexuality, including The Ethical Slut (nearly 200,000 copies sold to date, including the third edition published in 2017 by Random House), Spanking for Lovers, and her recent memoir Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals. Janet has traveled the world as a speaker and teacher on topics ranging from ethical multipartner relationships to erotic spanking and beyond. She has appeared in documentary films (Slut, Beyond Vanilla, Vice and Consent, BDSM: It’s Not What You Think), television shows (The Drum, SexTV, The Dr. Susan Block Show), and more radio shows than she can count. Janet's writing has appeared in publications as various as The Sondheim Review, Clamor andEIDOS. Her book Girlfag: A Life Told In Sex and Musicals was a finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the Bisexual Book Award, and her essay “Ex” was a finalist in the Event and New Letters creative nonfiction contests. "The Portal," a very personal essay about vaginas and their relationship to gender (which is not necessarily what one might think), appeared in Best Sex Writing 2010 (Cleis Press, 2009), and "The Old Folks At Home," an essay about aging in an ambiguously gendered relationship, appeared in Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation (Seal Press, 2010).
Stories
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Artwork (above): “One World” by Rocky Zi Yuan Wan, age 12. Hong Kong. China. 2019 ROW Finalist...
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Vicki Hudson, MFA nonfiction '08, is many things—Army veteran, rugby coach, mom—and part of what holds all these identities together is the...
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Students from all disciplines gathered in Hagerty Lounge last week to learn the ins and outs of the entertainment industry from a panel of...
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Dear Saint Mary's Community Members, ...
Events
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Jun
6Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 9 A.M.
The first annual Omnidawn Poetry Writing Conference will be held from June 6-9, 2019 at...
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26Friday, July 26, 2019 - 9 A.M.
Filippi Academic HallRiver of Words and Saint Mary’s College would like to invite you to the Center for...
Last updated by Sara Mumolo on April 26, 2018