First Kicking, Then Not: A Conversation with Hannah Grieco
October 7th, 2025 | by DW McKinney
I first met Hannah Grieco in the summer of 2020 in her capacity as the senior nonfiction editor for jmww
Browsing the "interview" Tag
Ordinary Love: An Interview with Marie Rutkoski
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.
Passing Notes: On Grief-Craft with Michelle Suzanne Mirsky
December 10th, 2024 | by Jessica Phillips Lorenz
I don't set my clock by the coming sadness
Processing Trauma Through Personal Narrative: An Interview with Bridey Thelen-Heidel
October 1st, 2024 | by Jen Bryant
How do you grieve a person who’s alive? How do you truly let them go
Breastfeeding is Dark Magic: Shannon Robinson on Motherhood, Beastliness and THE ILL-FITTING SKIN
July 26th, 2024 | by Emily Robbins
Again and again, the women in my stories feel confined by external notions of what they should be
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
Reimagining Family: A Q&A with Ruby Russell, Author of DOING IT ALL: THE SOCIAL POWER OF SINGLE MOTHERHOOD
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
“Eternally Grateful to Grow Up in NYC”: Jennifer Baum Looks Back on the Just City
April 10th, 2024 | by Frances Badalamenti
I was lucky in a lot of ways, though I didn’t know it at the time
“I Couldn’t Believe I Wasn’t Alone”: Minna Dubin Talks MOM RAGE
January 19th, 2024 | by Jacqui Morton
If one woman says she has been harmed, no one believes her.
“We Want to Do Things Differently”: A Conversation with Jen Lumanlan about PARENTING BEYOND POWER
December 8th, 2023 | by Sarah W. Jaffe
Can we raise the next generation to stop perpetuating toxic social forces that are at the root of so many of our world’s problems?