Jen Bryant
Jen Bryant is a senior editor at MUTHA Magazine and a creative nonfiction reader for Mud Season Review. Her work has appeared in The Sun, Ms., BUST, Cleaver Magazine, JMWW, MER Literary, Hip Mama, and elsewhere. Jen is a Ucross Foundation Fellow, and her writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays. Originally from the South, she currently lives in the Midwest.
May 19th, 2026 | by Jen Bryant
The box that we have currently for survivors to tell their story and be believed is so small. We just don’t make room for imperfect survivors
February 13th, 2026 | by Jen Bryant
Reproductive justice is a bridge in a way that choice never could be
August 26th, 2025 | by Jen Bryant
Once we start examining why infant adoption happens, the myths we tell ourselves about adoption begin to unravel very quickly
June 26th, 2025 | by Jen Bryant
We are always coming of age, and adulthood is also marked by moments where we leave our past self behind and enter into a new sense of identity.
June 17th, 2025 | by Jen Bryant
I immediately started writing after I realized I was in a cult – not necessarily with the intention of turning it into a book, but because I was like, “What happened?”
January 23rd, 2025 | by Jen Bryant
There’s no way to look at anything within the human experience without looking at how we love and care for each other, too
October 1st, 2024 | by Jen Bryant
How do you grieve a person who’s alive? How do you truly let them go
September 9th, 2024 | by Jen Bryant
Sometimes you think your situation is unique, but then you meet another mother who’s dealing with similar issues
May 14th, 2024 | by Jen Bryant
Part of the impetus for this book was that I wanted to read a history of single motherhood and I couldn’t find one – and that in itself surprised me
July 27th, 2023 | by Jen Bryant
"I somewhat naively believed that if I applied enough thinking and feeling and time and energy towards somehow solving the problem of my marriage falling apart, that by the time I got done with the book, I would get it — I would understand what happened, and I would be able to set it down."
