Kasia Van Schaik is a brilliant tour guide through the landscape of female artistic—dare I say—genius. My copy of Women Among Monuments is heavy with marginalia—an underlined, starred, and hearted journey through the lives and works of inspiring female artists, including the author herself, and their audacity to harness the terror, joy, and sacrifices of artistic creation, to build a room of their own, and to progress from being gazed upon to being seen.
Susan Sanford Blades, author of Fake It So Real
In The Lost Queen, Heidi von Palleske steps back into the haunting, beautiful world she first conjured in The Two White Queens and the One-Eyed Jack. She writes with a kind of quiet magic—the kind that sneaks up on you, the kind that makes ordinary moments shimmer. Von Palleske sees the world through both a camera lens and a poet’s eye, every frame alive, every line rich with feeling. She doesn’t just tell a story; she immerses you in one—guiding you through the dark toward something warm, luminous, and deeply human. It’s a book to fall into, get lost in, and come out the other side changed.
Thom Ernst, author of The Wild Boy of Waubamik
Well-researched, elegantly written, and a genuine pleasure to read, Women Among Monuments offers a thought-provoking exploration of the obstacles, sacrifices, and accidental subversiveness of choosing a creative life. Kasia Van Schaik skillfully draws us into a rich lineage of women who have dedicated themselves to art before or alongside other responsibilities. As someone who has meticulously protected my own pockets of chosen solitude, I felt seen by this book. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Eliza Robertson, author of I Got a Name
Kasia Van Schaik is a brilliant tour guide through the landscape of female artistic—dare I say—genius. My copy of Women Among Monuments is heavy with marginalia—an underlined, starred, and hearted journey through the lives and works of inspiring female artists, including the author herself, and their audacity to harness the terror, joy, and sacrifices of artistic creation, to build a room of their own, and to progress from being gazed upon to being seen.
Susan Sanford Blades, author of Fake It So Real
Well-researched, elegantly written, and a genuine pleasure to read, Women Among Monuments offers a thought-provoking exploration of the obstacles, sacrifices, and accidental subversiveness of choosing a creative life. Kasia Van Schaik skillfully draws us into a rich lineage of women who have dedicated themselves to art before or alongside other responsibilities. As someone who has meticulously protected my own pockets of chosen solitude, I felt seen by this book. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
Eliza Robertson, author of I Got a Name
A monument to the vitality of a life lived with and in the company of other women writers and artists.
Erin Wunker, author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life