By Any Other Name A Novel

This dual-timeline novel tells the entwined stories of two talented women, centuries apart, who are both forced to hide their work behind a male name for it to be recognized. In contemporary New York, playwright Melina Green, a descendant of a famous Elizabethan figure, is struggling to have her work taken seriously until her best friend submits her play under a male pseudonym. In the past, the novel follows Melina's ancestor, Emilia Bassano, an educated woman in Elizabethan England who, in an effort to get her prodigious plays and sonnets staged and published, enters a secret arrangement to pay an actor named William Shakespeare to front her work. The narrative explores themes of gender bias, historical erasure, the quest for authenticity, and the struggle for women's voices to be heard in a world that often seeks to silence them.

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