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
Browsing the "Writer Moms" Category
“The Lack of Support Never Ends”: Notes on Nicole Lynn Lewis’s PREGNANT GIRL: A STORY OF TEEN MOTHERHOOD, COLLEGE, AND CREATING A BETTER FUTURE FOR YOUNG FAMILIES (Beacon, 2021)
November 15th, 2021 | by Katherine Arnoldi
First, let me be clear: I love this book. I want you to read it right now and then I
“Figuring It Out As You Go Along”: Milda De Voe Talks To Domenica Ruta About BOOKS AND BABIES
April 29th, 2021 | by Domenica Ruta
I live in the creative world at all times, so slipping back into it is easy for me. Emerging into the land of juice stains on the place mats and candy wrappers left on the bedroom floor; that’s the hard part. I just do not want to go there
“Sadness Amid Joy”: Lakshmi Iyer’s Middle-Grade Novel Brings New Perspectives to Adoption Literature
August 27th, 2020 | by Cheryl Klein
I started from the things I am intimately familiar with. I am often at the receiving end of questions like “Why is my hair black?” or “Why is my skin different from my sister?”
Aya de Leon is TALKING TO HERSELF…about her new chapter book EQUALITY GIRLS
June 9th, 2020 | by Aya de Leon
I am officially interviewing myself here…Moms getting it done!
At Least For Now
January 29th, 2020 | by Melissa Chandler
I forget I was once a person who could sit with nothing but words for hours, rearranging them, creating something where before was only blank space. Now I’ve helped create you, and it feels as if we’ve been walking together in a deep wood.
“As Complex as Childhood, as Complex as the World”: Author Shea Tuttle on Mister Rogers
December 4th, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
"Fred Rogers reminds me, in (at least some of) the frustrating moments, to take a breath and consider what’s happening inside of my kids."
In My Defense
November 19th, 2019 | by Odeta Xheka
The creator in me keeps a purposefully irregular schedule, craves solitude, must fade out of reach in order to work. The mother, the daughter, the wife doesn’t have a minute to herself
Attachment Wounds: Writer Frances Badalmenti on the Legacy of Mental Illness and the Appeal of a White Duvet
May 28th, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
"There was this tremendous fear of intimacy, which was rooted in the fear of loss.... We both knew that this was going to be our story and that our story would be very powerful."
Pain is Beauty: Imagining Motherhood
November 19th, 2018 | by Shannon Greene
All of my life has been about me. The video camera of my childhood was, if not holding me in