P.O.W.ER

Literature & Fiction

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Synopsis

What if your words were a crime, but your silence was a death sentence?

In New North, women are forbidden to read. Andra has spent her whole life hiding the fact that she can do far more than that. She can write events into existence. Her words do not just describe reality. They create it.

When the wrong people discover what she can do, Andra is faced with an impossible choice. Stay hidden and survive. Or use her power and risk everything to free the women around her.

She was never supposed to be a revolutionary. But revolutions are not started by the people who feel ready.

A Sarton Women's Literary Award finalist. Hailed by the Huffington Post as part dystopian fiction, part feminist manifesto. For readers of Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, and Tamora Pierce.

P.O.W.ER is the story of what happens when one young woman stops hiding and starts writing the world she wants to live in.

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Author Biography

Over the years, Lisa A. Kramer (MFA, PhD) discovered the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration as a tool for strengthening all aspects of society. As an educator, theatre director, creativity facilitator, Gateless writing instructor, author, and speaker she built a career on helping others access their inner creative power in order to discover new approaches toward making this a more just, equitable world.

As a recovering academic, Dr. Kramer strives to find relatable and creative ways to share knowledge and understanding with broader audiences both in person and virtually. She does this through Spark Collaborative, a virtual community built so support the creativity in all of us.

Her book Creative Collaborations Through Inclusive Theatre and Community Based Learning won the American Alliance for Theatre Education Distinguished Book Award (2018). Her debut novel P.O.W.er was a finalist for the Sarton Literary Price in Contemporary Fiction.

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Author Insight

A note about creative rebellion

This passage is from my author's note at the end of book. July 4th celebrates birth of a country that was supposedly built on the concept of "unalienable Rights" including "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." However, recent times shows us the imperfections in the document. Whether intentional or not, it has allowed a misconception that the only people deserving those rights tend to be white, male, and wealthy. At it's foundation, P.O.W.ER challenges a system that allows the lives of the many to be controlled by the few. It is a story for our times, encouraging change that starts from the people, and supports everyone.

Book Excerpt

P.O.W.ER

Now, a little over 10 years later, the dystopian world of New North seems to be creeping closer. Of course, women and girls can still read—but the censoring of books that tell stories of justice, equity, and diversity is on the rise. Of course, women can still receive an education, but minimizing and removing professional degrees that attract mostly women further limits options for all. It shows a clear disregard for what women offer society beyond their wombs. Of course, women aren’t being forced to marry at a young age; however, the trend to ignore young women being forced into marriage or abused and the stripping of bodily autonomy for many people, suggests a future where the reality of New North could happen. Or is it already happening?

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Lisa A Kramer

P.O.W.ER

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Author Biography

Author Insight

A note about creative rebellion

Book Excerpt

P.O.W.ER

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