Awards for Hit Girls

• Midland Authors 2023 - RICHARD FRISBIE AWARD FOR ADULT NONFICTION

• The Association for Recorded Sound Collections 2024 - Certificate of Merit for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

Press for Hit Girls

• NPR’s 2023 Books We Love

• Alternative Press

• Music Journalism Insider

• NPR Newsletter

• Chicago Reader

• “Best of” Chicago Reader

• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

• Shepherd Express

• The Wire

• Modern Soul Records

• Louder Than War

• Huck Magazine

• Punktuation Mag

• Grammy.com

• Bandcamp Big Ups

• Milwaukee Record

• Fanzine Hemorrhage

Punk godmothers Suzy Quatro, The Runaways, Patti Smith, Poison Ivy, Tina Weymouth, Debbie Harry, The Go-Gos, and Fanny’s Millington sisters provided the template for thousands of girls and women throughout the United States to write and record their songs.

Published by Feral House in 2023, Hit Girls tells the stories of women in the first wave of punk whose music has largely remained outside of mainstream consciousness.

Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA, 1975-1983