Coming
Dec 9
2025
A groundbreaking debut memoir that examines the rhyming scripts of diet culture and evangelical purity culture, both of which direct women to fear their own bodies and appetites
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Anna Rollins's memoir, FAMISHED: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl (out 12.9.25 from Eerdmans and available for pre-order now), examines the rhyming scripts of evangelical purity culture and diet culture. Learn more about who FAMISHED was written for over on her Substack.
Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, Electric Literature, Joyland, Shondaland, NBCNews, HuffPost, and Newsweek, among other outlets. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart prize.
An award-winning writing instructor, she taught English and directed the writing center at Marshall University for almost fifteen years.
Her newsletter, On writing and publishing with Anna Rollins, discusses craft, process, and strategy for creative writers hoping to get their work out into the world. Subscribe for free and receive the Perfect Pitch template as a free download in your Welcome email.
She lives in West Virginia with her husband and three small children.
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Between the Sunflower Stalks
THE NEW YORK TIMES
August in a West Virginia sunflower field, early morning but already hot. Charlie’s blue helmet bobs through brilliant yellow flowers. He smiles as I eye other infants between the sunflower stalks. I envy their round heads, symmetrical faces, bare scalps. Suddenly, I miss Charlie’s smell, so I duck beneath his helmet to peck his cheek…continue reading