Shana Deets' current project began when she came upon a small seaside museum in Beaufort, North Carolina on a rainy Sunday in 2002, and stood eye-to-eye with two women pirates.
Since then, she has worked to research this era and to write Anne Bonny and Mary Read back to life, along with the beautiful and brutal world of the eighteenth century Caribbean.
There was one word in her mind when Shana first saw these two women pirates holding out their swords across nearly 300 years: Impossible.
So began the eight-year journey of a poet to write the epic and unusual story of their lives, and ultimately to meet them on their terms and in recognition of their humanity.