Gina Barreca’s aptly named Gina School (Woodhall Press) offers open, early, and rolling admissions, perpetual latecomers, mature students, speed readers, book groups, gloriously erudite librarians, anxious applicants in need of reassurance, writers in need of prompts, and gift givers. Extravagantly illustrated, provocative, reassuring and witty, Gina School reassures readers that they are not alone, they are not nuts, and that laughing together is as close as you can get to another person without hugging them.
Barreca's books include the bestselling They Used to Call Me Snow White But I Drifted: Women’s Strategic Use of Humor as well as It's Not That I’m Bitter, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World and Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League. Of the other six books she’s written or co-written, several have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Japanese and German.
She edits the Fast Women series for Woodhall Press and writes a popular blog for Psychology Today. She’s a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where she’s also won the institution’s highest award for excellence in teaching.