Gina Malone, Author
By Marga Fripp
In her debut poetry collection, Gina Malone explores grief, memory and the quiet divinity within ordinary women—the overlooked goddesses of daily life.
Following the loss of her mother in 2022, Malone wrote poem after poem, until the writing became a story not only of loss but of honoring her mother’s life. The idea of including the Greek goddess Hestia arrived through the writing process. “I decided I wanted to find the parallels between a goddess and a mortal woman,” Malone says. “I envisioned writing about my mother as if she were elevated to a goddess, and writing about the goddess Hestia as if she were also just a woman at heart living her daily life.” The poems are presented as “glimpses, sketches, just enough that readers gain a sense of a life lived,” she adds.
She hopes the book speaks to men who want to understand better the women in their lives and, of course, to women—wives, daughters, mothers and especially those aged 40 and over. “I know that for me and for my mother our 40s felt like a time of reclaiming happiness, of going in search of the young girls we used to be,” Malone says, “that innocent part of ourselves that has not been told that society has different rules for women, a set of expectations that are likely to be unrealistic and unattainable, and are not the ones we necessarily have for ourselves.”
What Does Anyone Know About Goddesses?, November 2025, poetry, paperback, $20, by Gina Malone, and published by Kelsay Books, American Fork, UT. A book launch will be held Thursday, April 9, from 6–8 p.m. at The Pollinators Foundation in Waynesville. Learn more at ThePollinatorsFoundation.org, and order books at GinaMaloneWriter.com.
