Jill Kolongowski is the author of the Substack newsletter Tiny True Stories, the essay collection Life Lessons Harry Potter Taught Me (Ulysses Press, 2017), with other essays forthcoming or published in The Sun, Electric Literature, Brevity, River Teeth, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She’s working on a new book about how the anxiety of being a young woman turns into the anxiety of being a mother, and how we survive the terror and the joy. Jill lives with her husband and children in Northern California, and you can find her online at jillkwrites.com.