"Her Own Thinker: Canadian Women Writers as Essayists explores the thinking, ideas, and insights that Canadian women fiction writers have chosen to express in essay form rather than in fiction form. It looks at this substantial body of writing with a primary focus on collections of essays, and on those published since the 1960s. In all, it considers over 40 collections, offering an overview and appreciation of this generally overlooked work and its contributions to cultural and intellectual thinking in Canada."--

Christl Verduyn works as a scholar and professor of Canadian literature. She is the author, editor/co-editor, and professor of books, articles, and essay collections on women writers and writers from historically marginalized communities.