SDWEG member, Muffy Walker celebrates the release of her debut novel, Dream Weavers. The book has received the Firebird Book Award, the Literary Titan Silver Book Award, the Hawthorne Prize, and was selected as finalist for the 2025 International Impact Book Awards in the Women's Fiction category.

Rachel, in her early twenties, was raped in her college dorm. Traumatized, she quit college. At age 28, she continued to suffer from panic attacks and sometimes hallucinated a replay of her rape.

Hadley, in her forties, has three children and a loving husband. Unfortunately, she has a form of early-onset Alzheimer’s.

Meeting in a psychiatric practice waiting room, the two women form a supportive friendship. Their bond strengthens as each struggles with individual memory issues.

Memory Weavers helps the reader to understand the struggle of each woman and shows how their conditions affect their family members. The story attests to the power of friendship. Rachel gains needed help to recover and heal while Hadley’s husband and children benefit from Rachel’s friendship as they cope with the painful decline of their parent and wife.