Cynthia Huff is a Professor of English at Illinois State University. She is the co-editor of Inscribing the Daily: Critical Essays on Women's Diaries (1996).

• Notes on Contrthutors -- Acknowledgments -- Towards a geography of women's life writing and imagined communities : an introductory essay /Cynthia Huff -- Imagined ancestral communities of displaced Australian daughters : Evelyn Crawford's Over My Tracks and Lily Brett's After the War and Unintended Consequences /Gay Breyley -- The community of camp sisters : bonds of support, bonds of subversion /Deborah Lee Ames -- Imagining an hospitable community in the deportation narratives of Baltic women /Leena Kurvet-Kaosaar -- Imagining "sweet fellowship" : resisting prejudice with spiritual transcendence in Jarena Lee's imagined community /Jeryl J. Prescott -- Reverse migrations and imagined communities /Manuela Costantino and Susanna Egan -- "Somewhere between Puerto Rico and New York" : the representation of individual and collective identities in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican and Almost a woman /Marta Vizcaya Echano -- Dear (embodied) reader : life writing and disability /Susannah B. Mintz -- "Prei for me mi leue suster" : the paradox of the anchoritic "community" in late medieval England /Michelle M. Sauer -- Collaborative life writing as ideology : the auto /biographies of Mary Howitt and her family /Linda H. Peterson -- "We are the web" : letter writing and the 1980s women's peace movement /Margaretta Jolly -- Consuming lives, creating community : female Chinese-American diary writing on the Web /Lena Karlsson -- Another form of crying : girl zines as life writing /Jennifer Sinor -- Voices /Lynn Z. Bloom -- This bridge called my book : anthologies of women's life writing and the problem of community /Jillian Sandell -- Imagining sisterhood, again /Jeanne Perreault