The Best of Vela

Vela is an online magazine that publishes nonfiction inspired by travel written by women. This stellar collection features select work from the magazine covering terrain as far-flung as Afghanistan El Salvador the Philippines and the former Soviet Union as well as a college campus a city bus and a prison. In keeping with Vela's belief that there are no women's subjects and that women should be free to write with the same intellectual and creative freedom as men these stories explore subjects including war motherhood AIDS human rights natural disaster grief gangs addiction home and illness.