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Jan/Feb 2023

From the Editor: January/February 2023

It’s liberating to know you can begin any time you decide. Permission isn’t needed. We hope that you give yourself permission to pause and read the latest issue from Literary Mama.

From the Editor | January/February 2023 | By Rudri Bhatt Patel


The Growth Is in the Fear: A Conversation with Julia Haart

“I wasn’t leaving my kids, and I knew I had to do something drastic to bring them with me.”

Profiles | January/February 2023 | By Holly Rizzuto Palker


Processing Life on the Page: A Conversation with Erin Khar

“But I knew that I had to be honest on the page, which meant that some people weren’t going to like me—both as the character in the book and the author.”

Profiles | January/February 2023 | By Jennie Burke


Undocumented Mothering: A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Farfán-Santos

“I think it’s so important to document the aspects of motherhood that are less visible, the raw human stuff we don’t talk about, the guilt, the pain, the grieving.”

Profiles | January/February 2023 | By Brianna Avenia-Tapper


Far from Ideal: A Conversation with Liz Alterman

“I wanted readers to feel like they were inside these women’s heads so they’d have more compassion for each of them.”

Profiles | January/February 2023 | By Sheryl Zedeck Katz


Chorus of Desire: A Conversation with Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters

“The real fire of wanting comes . . . when you’re determining who you’re going to be, what your purpose is in the world. Power, ambition, money, sex, identity—these things orbit the central concept of desire like planets in a solar system.”

Profiles | January/February 2023 | By Jenny Bartoy


The Messiness of Motherhood: A Review of The Women Could Fly

The Women Could Fly is a novel rooted in the inherent messiness of parenthood: a mother cannot be known by her child separate from her mothering.

Reviews | January/February 2023 | By Sarah Johnson LaBarbera


Deconstructing the Meaning of Motherhood: A Review of The Other Mother

The Other Mother is laced with an overarching theme of doing what is right to protect someone, even if that protection is self-preservation.

Reviews | January/February 2023 | By Juliann “Julz” Savard


A Mother’s Resistance Poetry: A Review of Catastrophic Molting

The poems in Catastrophic Molting acknowledge our anger while challenging readers to hope for and work for change.

Reviews | January/February 2023 | By Diane Gottlieb


Memory Care

I am going to forget this, the most exquisite moments of my life.

Fiction | January 2023 | By Sarah Busching


Mama Alone

Mama, alone is …

Comic, Fiction | January/February 2023 | By Katia Wish


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