J Jill Robinson: 6 books

This collection of short stories, the fourth from this award-winning author, is an unsentimental examination of women…. Her writing style, like her approach to each pain-filled topic, is intelligent and straightforward. Unapologetically, she heads straight towards the heart of the most confused...

This terrifically moving personal essay about mother whose child is abducted by his father first appeared in Prairie Fire magazine.

This touching and direct personal essay about a father’s struggle with ageing and alcohol, and reflections on a daughter’s teen pregnancy, was anthologized in Slice Me Some Truth: An Anthology of Canadian creative nonfiction.

A quiet night of mother and son camping explodes into a firsthand experience with the SWAT team. Originally published in Geist magazine.

This poignant personal essay about the reunion between a birth mother and her son won Event magazine’s creative nonfiction contest and was anthologized in Somebody’s Child.

At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...