Award-winning writer and educator Lollie Butler frequently uses her craft to illuminate the histories and struggles of resilient, often marginalized women. Holding a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona, Butler has brought literary programs to schools, libraries, and women inmates at the Arizona State Prison. Her celebrated body of work spans poetry, memoir, and children’s literature, earning her a fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and an award from the Texas A&M Presidential Library, where her poetic tribute to Rosa Parks is permanently displayed. This deep dedication to witnessing historical trauma is powerfully realized in her 2007 War Poetry Contest award-winning piece, "The Comfort Women." Speaking through the harrowing, first-person perspective of a girl sold into a brothel by her father to save their family from starvation, the poem confronts the brutal reality of the women and girls forced into sexual slavery during World War II. Butler conveys their profound physical and psychological trauma through visceral, haunting imagery, juxtaposing the narrator's tender memories of her mother and her father's captive fishing birds with the agonizing violence of the war. Ultimately, the poem stands as a stark indictment of war's ravages on the female body and an urgent, heart-wrenching plea for these forgotten "sisters" across Asia to be remembered.