Introducing... Our Summer Intern

Grace Montgomery was twelve when she first learned about Women Writing for (a) Change. She attended a Young Women’s Summer Camp in 2000 and was hooked. Each summer after that – including semester workshops in between – Grace brought her creativity and her writing to the YWWfaC circle. In 2006 she left for Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. This summer, Grace has returned to her writing roots as a WWfaC Intern.

Over the past three years Grace has majored in English and minored in Art History. She plans to graduate from Guilford College with a BA in December 2009. She has sought out a variety of internships. Her work as a publishing intern for Eye Magazine took her to London during this past year. She has interned as a curator for an art gallery and community arts center in Greensboro, and assisted in the Quaker books collection of Guilford College’s Hege Library. During the summer of 2006, she was a Teen Apprentice for ArtWorks in Cincinnati.

This summer, Grace has been delving into WWfaC’s archive of young women’s writing anthologies, with a goal of assembling a representative collection of the writing produced by girls and teens in the Young Women Writing for (a) Change summer camps. She envisions a series of publications showcasing the dreams, ideas, musings and stories in the writings of hundreds of young women like her – from ten to twenty – who have found their voices at YWWfaC.

Grace says, “Like many other girls and young women, the nurturing environment at YWWfaC helped me to establish not just my writing voice but also my sense of self. The extraordinary community of young women here creates such strength in one another. I am so excited to be doing work again at WWfaC, and I hope that these collections of writing will fully show the growth and beauty of these young women and their words in their experiences at YWWfaC.”

Grace is the daughter of Leanne Montgomery and resides in Mt. Lookout.