A lyrical reckoning with the myths, silences, and inherited stories that shape women’s creative lives.
Part personal manifesto, part historical excavation, In Her Own Right explores the inner lives and artistic legacies of women across time. With lyric precision and radical intimacy, author Chelsea Madeline invites readers to reconsider what it means to live a creative life as a woman today.
Moving between past and present, the book challenges the stories we’ve been told about art, genius, and who gets to claim visibility. Designed with intention and care, it feels as much like an artifact as it does a book—a quiet offering of reclamation.
Blue Sky Press, 2024
“In the very beginning, god was a woman.
They didn’t know how conception worked, so it seemed a miracle when a woman became pregnant, like she was summoning life from another realm, pulling it here by sheer force of will. She was a portal, a mystic, a creator of breath and soul.
All life emerged from her body.
Of course She was god.”