When we think of writers who have written fiction or autobiography about living "on the edge", many male writers come to mind. Charles Bukowski, John Rechy, Henry Miller, Hunter Thompson, William Burroughs - the list goes on and on. But I have a hard time coming up with a list of women writing 'literary' works in the same area. Lucia Berlin, Jean Rhys, Jayne Anne Phillips, and me (my book Sing Soft, Sing Loud is about women in prison and on the street). Can you add to this list? By "on the edge" I mean people for whom merely to survive at all is a day-to-day struggle. They may be alcoholic or drug-dependent, or just out of work and out of luck, or struck down by misfortune, or simply so unwilling to conform they can't hold a job for long so they stay on the street and on the move.