was founded in 1994 by Nikki Hardin, a freelance writer living off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina.
Longing to have something to read that reflected her life and the lives of the women she knew, she decided to start a magazine.
[3] She wanted a publication that had essays on women's issues, not recipes and fashion.
books, an imprint of the Morris Communications' Globe Pequot Press.
Machu my Picchu : searching for sex, sanity, and a soul mate in South America.