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Erica Vanstone is the former Executive Director for the Women's Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA)-the international governing body for the sport of roller derby. Her writing has appeared in Write or Die Magazine, Intangible Magazine, Black Bough Poetry and others. A former filmmaker and NYU film school grad, Erica worked in the film industry for years before ditching it to film and eventually run the sport of roller derby. Erica has an MS in Sports Business from Temple University and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she builds community sport and safety programs for a youth organization. DON'T LET THEM EAT THE BABY is her debut book. Michelle Kicherer is the author of the novella Sexy Life, Hello. Michelle is a book critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and Willamette Week. Her fiction has been published in The Masters Review, The Berkeley Fiction Review and many others. Michelle is the Founding Editor of Banana Pitch Press, and is a writing instructor and coach. She often encourages writers to ""get a little weirder.""
""Vanstone takes us on a romp through the chaotic origin of modern roller derby; the highs and lows, the incredible people who play this sport balancing their real and often respectable lives with the possibility of a broken nose or tailbone at each game or practice. This book is at once hilarious, meticulously reported and well-written. It'll make you want to put on a pair of skates and throw an elbow."" - Jane McManus, former journalist with ESPN, author of The Fast Track ""Don't Let Them Eat the Baby is a lot of things: An engaging chronicle of self-discovery, and a tour through a vibrant, messy subculture. It's about ownership and agency, about messing up and trying again, falling down and getting back up. Roller derby, with its inventiveness and inclusiveness, its sense of humor and community, might be needed more now than ever. And so are stories like this about women fighting for their space in sports - and everywhere else."" - Emma Span, Enterprise Editor, The Athletic ""An inspirational tale of motherhood, sisterhood and what to do with a film degree when you're an adult. Vanstone's punchy memoir is about how sometimes you need to get knocked on your ass a few times to find yourself, on and off the track."" - Sean Burns, WBUR, Boston ""I think the coolest thing about this reflection and revelation is that roller derby has never been about making grassroots organizing a corporate gig...Derby and its members are the key holders to the proverbial kingdom."" - Jumpy McGee aka April Fournier
