Sam Field and Tiffanie Drayton chat with Mac Crane, author of Perverts, about challenging the definition of perversion, finding connection, and exploring how parenthood affects the creative process.

If you love fiction, are interested in fostering other writers through the editing and submission process, and would like a ready-made network of other mama writers to enhance your own creative endeav...

Motherhood, for many new parents, is life-changing. Life-sacrificing. Samina Ali’s transformation and surrender are more literal. And violent. “I hadn’t realized that ushering in his life would requir...

Literary Mama

Amanda and Holly chat with Andrea Louie, author of Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon’s Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority, about her grandmother’s 1952 U.S. Mother of the Year Award.

The first time we have sex after the baby, my husband tells me, “I’m not attracted to big girls.” When I tell him I’m not attracted to assholes, he makes a face, tells me I shouldn’t take it perso...

The girl I love says oh no, please wake up and flips the light on and for the third time in a year there’s a gush of blood soaking into the mattress, but this time she’s miscarried a tiny foal, legs l...

Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Martheaus Perkins, author of The Grace of Black Mothers, about Black motherhood, poetic form, and the complicated inheritance of the American Dream.

I have to wake you every three hours to nurseor you would sleep right on through the day.You fall asleep after school and I rouse you for dinner,then you linger doing homework online after midnight.I ...

When I became a mother, after wanting to be one for a very long time, I expected to transform into mother: a role that would bring peace, wholeness, and joy to my life. But what I couldn’t predict was...

There is a room without sound inside you. Listen.Let me be clear as citrine. Let me be clearas saltwater. Your body is openas foremilk. Your body will not holdas tears. You a...

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This week on ‘The Write Question,’ for a live, pledge week episode, host Lauren Korn speaks with Allison De Jong: the Montana Natural History Center’s Communications Coordinator and the editor of ‘Mon...

There is a room without sound inside you. Listen.Let me be clear as citrine. Let me be clearas saltwater. Your body is openas foremilk. Your body will not holdas tears. You a...

NOVEMBER I wish I was a Great Blue Heron standing on one leg in the Clark Fork River clutching ancient bedrock in my talons for balance instead of your waist to hold you upright so the cancer that …

NOVEMBER I wish I was a Great Blue Heron standing on one leg in the Clark Fork River clutching ancient bedrock in my talons for balance instead of your waist to hold you upright so the cancer that …

Amanda and Eva chat with Chloe Yelena Miller, author of Perforated, about impossible wishes and material fears in parenting and poetry.