Current Volume: Volume 10 (2023)

From the Editors

Dear reader,

Welcome to the 2023 edition of AWE: A Woman’s Experience. This issue has been long in the making, and we would like to thank all of our editors for their dedicated effort in producing this journal. Without their talent and hard work, this edition would not be possible, and we feel privileged to have them on our team. We would also like to extend special recognition to our faculty advisor, Dr. Marlene Esplin, as well as the Kennedy Center publication staff, Emily Nelson and Lenae Rubey. Their guidance has been invaluable throughout the production of this issue.

Thank you to everyone who submitted your pieces for publication in the journal. Although we could not publish all of the work we were sent, we loved reading about your experiences, and we are so grateful for your bravery in sharing your stories. Know that your articles, poems, and artworks have made an indelible impact on us. We believe that AWE occupies a unique space not only on BYU’s campus, but across the world, allowing women’s voices to be heard. We hope that the journal will help connect readers and authors through their shared experiences, thus empowering one another in our individual human journeys. Your work has certainly done so in our lives, and we hope that the pieces in this edition will have the same effect on all those who come across them.

This is the tenth issue of our journal and, with its publication, we continue to pursue those objectives. We hope that students, editors, authors, artists, and readers will continue to rally around this journal as a platform to see and be seen, to share and to learn, and, most importantly, to be reminded that they are never alone.

Warmly

Eliza Peterson

Madsyn Selph

Emma Belnap

Grace Chipman