“All the parts work together”: Author Sara Nović on Identity, Adoption, and Falling Short as a Parent
June 1st, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
You can genuinely want what's best for your kids and be dead wrong about what it is.
Browsing the "Writer Moms" Category
This is My Life
April 28th, 2023 | by Eloisa Pérez-Lozano
After having my son, I was terrified I would lose myself in him
“Our hopes for healing must be bigger than ourselves”: An Interview With Poet Eugenia Leigh
April 13th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
Those mama bear metaphors are spot-on. I will do anything to protect my child. And now, I’m finally pissed off at all the people who did not protect me
On Reaching: A Conversation with Majka Burhardt
March 7th, 2023 | by Brianna Avenia-Tapper
"It is the ability to be okay with the change and the movement. To ask, 'What are the tools that I have before me right now and what’s the choice that I need to make right now?' That’s climbing in a nutshell, and that’s mothering in a nutshell."
We All Scream: Jessica Grose on her New Book About American Motherhood
December 13th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
The major roadblock isn’t exhaustion. It is that there are still people who think it’s not the job of the government to help support the next generation of children and their families
Optimism and Anxiety Stew: Michelle Tea Talks About Knocking Myself Up
November 15th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
I read Valencia, Michelle Tea’s account of 1990s queer life in San Francisco’s Mission district, when I was a newly
DEAR ANGELA GARBES: On Sobbing
November 3rd, 2022 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
Crying seems the most natural of responses to these last years in pandemic and global disruption. So why hadn’t I done more of it
Privacy, Erasure, and Consent as a Writing Mother
October 25th, 2022 | by Christy Tending
What started out as a deliberate but straightforward choice for our child has had unexpected consequences
Book Excerpt: Crybaby
October 20th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
This would become a mantra: If it gets us a baby, it’s worth it, as the universe upped the ante on what “it” was
On Learning to Write With Chaos
June 2nd, 2022 | by Chital Mehta
I told myself, I’ll write someday when my head isn’t a mess and my desk isn’t a pile of clutter