Submerged: Tales from the Basin
Submerged: Tales from the Basin, featuring Ellen Hagan, graduate MFA in Creative Writing at The New School.
Stepsister Press, 2008
Submerged: Tales from the Basin is an anthology of literature, memoir, and art created by more than thirty women to benefit those who survived Hurricane Katrina. The title refers to a fear many of us had as young children, of having our heads submerged under water while our mothers washed our hair. The stories, essays, poems, and art of Submerged are an exploration of each contributor’s relationship with her hair, in most cases emotional, often humorous, and consistently generated from youth.