REVISION:
A Gender Memoir-in-Essays
by Sheryl Boris-Schacter
Available April 2027
Vine Leaves Press
About REVISION
REVISION: A GENDER MEMOIR-IN-ESSAYS uses interconnected stories to explore how gender behavior, identity, and expression shifted significantly in just three generations of a single family. Three successive generations born with XX chromosomes, presumed to be female, in decidedly different cultural eras, historical periods, and political contexts. Three generations defining themselves as both the same and different from their mothers.
At its heart, the memoir poses a timeless question: Does being true to ourselves always involve disappointing our mothers?
About the author
Sheryl Boris-Schacter built her career in education as a teacher, principal, professor, and leader in a national nonprofit, using writing as a tool to connect research with real-world practice. She is the author of more than twenty scholarly articles and two nonfiction books on educational leadership, Balanced Leadership: How Effective Principals Manage Their Work (Teachers College Press) and The Changing Relationship Between Principal and Superintendent (Jossey-Bass).
Her newest book, to be published in April 2027 by Vine Leaves Press, is a memoir. REVISION: A Gender Memoir-in-Essays, draws on both her professional insight and personal experience as a mother and a daughter.
Sheryl holds doctoral and master’s degrees from Harvard University. She lives with her husband Bill in New York’s Hudson Valley where she divides her time among writing, traveling, gardening, hiking, cooking, collecting kitschy salt and pepper shakers, and sweating through Zumba classes. She is currently at work on an historical novel about an aristocratic suffragist and art gallery owner residing on Fifth Avenue in New York City in 1912.
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