Interrogating Girlhood: A Conversation with Melissa Fraterrigo
May 5th, 2026 | by Rowan Tetro
There's a bittersweetness to being able to relate.
Browsing the "writer moms" Tag
G is for Generation: On Finishing Our Parents’ Projects, Or Not
April 10th, 2026 | by Cheryl Klein
What am I doing for myself? What am I doing for my kid(s)? When is it time to give up on my own achievements and pass the torch
“Will You Know How Much I Loved You?” Tiffany Graham Charkosky on Parenting in the Face of Cancer Risk
October 21st, 2025 | by Cheryl Klein
"What makes us human is our willingness to care for those who need it." —Tiffany Graham Charkosky
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
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?"