Care and Feeding
November 19th, 2024 | by Frances Badalamenti
I dedicated my book to all the mothers
Browsing the "Writer Moms" Category
“I Began With a Question”: A Conversation with LaToya Jordan about TO THE WOMAN IN THE PINK HAT
September 24th, 2024 | by Jacqui Morton
LaToya Jordan started writing fiction a year or two after her daughter was born
Will We Survive?
June 25th, 2024 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
I sat on a long subway ride from my borough of Brooklyn to Emily Raboteau’s home in the Bronx, crying
Waxing and Waning: An Essay Review of WOMEN ON THE MOON
June 21st, 2024 | by Sharline Chiang
I read these poems at the kitchen table after my daughter had gone to bed
From Start to Finish
March 26th, 2024 | by India Akua Mendonca
While I love being a mother to my daughter, it’s hard to reconcile who I used to be — a writer — with who I am now
Spilling Your Guts: Motherhood, Memoir, and What I Learned from David Sedaris
February 27th, 2024 | by Irena Smith
I would rewrite the autism narrative. It would be literate, snarky, dark, and funny. The subtext, of course, was that our extraordinary child would also recover, though I would never use that word.
Stories Stories: Laurie Frankel’s Adoption Novel, Family Family, is Neither Sunshine Nor Misery
February 12th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"If it’s simple, you can say it in a social media post; it’s because it’s so hard that it has to be novel." —Laurie Frankel
“Grief Is Not Regret”: The Art of Pink Hair
February 8th, 2024 | by Nicole Haroutunian
Being a parent still feels like a fever dream.
Motherhood is Like Cutting Teeth: A Conversation with Meg Thompson
August 8th, 2023 | by Tiffany Graham Charkosky
In high school, a quiet girl with wild red curls was in my honors English class. I was new to
Writing From the Center: A Conversation with Maggie Smith
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."