“Here twenty contemporary women writers trespass across various confines—imposed upon body, gender, race, sexual orientation, class, national origin, and more—to explore the theme of place in their lives: the places they travel, the places they call home, the places they have carved for themselves in the world despite every obstacle.”

—May-lee Chai, from the foreword to Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism