The Other Mother Tribe
August 5th, 2025 | by Lorie Adair
There is a small band of other mothers who grieve alongside me, who also feel the willow switch of a complicated motherhood
Browsing the "writer moms" Tag
The Flawed-Mom Memoir My Kid Might Write
December 16th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
People rarely write memoirs about purely happy childhoods
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
Care and Feeding
November 19th, 2024 | by Frances Badalamenti
I dedicated my book to all the mothers
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
The World Ought to Know Something of Your Shimmers: Poems
May 23rd, 2024 | by Melinda Coppola
Your questions refresh with their honesty, jostle assumptions, make space for wonder
Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Novelist Katya Apekina on Russia, Motherhood, and Mother Doll
April 25th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"Russian immigrants find the American friendliness to be off-putting and insane. Why do people smile so much?"
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.
Why More Parents Should Let Teens Read Sex Scenes
July 11th, 2023 | by Kerry Chaput
If popular culture exposed me to sex as a positive experience, maybe I wouldn’t have been so afraid