Forest Daughters, ed. Sanita Reinsone (English Language rights available)

Originally published in Latvian as Meža meitas by Dienas Grāmata, 2015

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Project awarded a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Literature in Translation

This collection includes 12 life stories of Latvian women who lived in the thick of the guerilla war against Soviet invasion and occupation. Often left out of Latvia's guerilla war history, women played an integral role in protecting their homeland. Reinsone (b. 1981), a scholar in Latvian folklore, oral history, and digital humanities, recorded the stories of these women in a documentary-essay style and each chapter is alive with the respective woman's experience as she recalls harrowing and heart-wrenching events of her life during this period in history.

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About the Editor: Sanita Reinsone (1984) is a researcher in the field of humanities specializing in digital humanities, digital cultural heritage, citizen science and participatory research methods. She is also involved in the study of folk narratives, life-writing traditions, and oral history.   

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