Halimah Marcus, HORSE GIRLS: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Executive editor of Electric Literature Halimah Marcus joins Zibby to talk about her new anthology, Horse Girls, which was inspired by her lifelong love of horses. The two discuss the unique dynamic that seems to exist between women and horses, how each essay — penned by an impressive roster of writers — captures a piece of this relationship, and what events in Halimah's personal history have endeared her to loving these animals forever.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.1	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.
0:12.9	Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do.
0:17.9	All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy.
0:25.8	Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium.
0:28.5	And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy Books.
0:32.3	And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids.
0:36.9	Hi.
0:37.4	Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
0:41.1	Halema Marcus is the author of Horse Girls. Recovering, aspiring, and devoted writers
0:45.9	redefine the iconic bond. Halema's short stories and essays have appeared in one story,
0:51.9	bomb, the literary review, Amazon Original Stories, The Out There
0:55.5	Podcast, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, the Southampton Review, and elsewhere. She is the executive
1:00.8	director of electric literature, an innovative digital publisher based in Brooklyn, and the editor-in-chief
1:06.4	of its weekly fiction magazine recommended reading, which she co-founded. She has an MFA from Brooklyn
1:11.5	College and lives in the Catskill region of New York. Welcome, Halima. Thanks for coming on.
1:16.2	Moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss horse girls, recovering, aspiring, and
1:20.4	devoted riders redefine the iconic bond. Thank you for having me. As a fellow anthology editor, I like have a, you know, pre-pre-predelection,
1:31.4	is that even the right word for other anthologies? And I love reading essays by and that bring
1:37.1	together and books that bring together such interesting voices. I love Courtney Mom, by the way.
1:41.4	I've had her on my podcast several times. And anyway, the essays were
1:44.6	fantastic. So why don't you tell everybody a little bit more about horse girls and why you were the
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