Profiles

What if love could be measured? What if maternal instincts could literally be measured? Those questions really lodged in my subconscious.

Megan Mayhew Bergman’s stories explore women who dare to be discontent in their lives.

The best poems enter your body and you think with them forever. I hope to one day write a poem that does that work for someone else.

That she managed to parent four kids while crafting a successful writing career seems as otherworldly as the spirits that haunt her fiction.

“I write about things that I want to understand, that I want to figure out, and I try to impose some form onto things that feel chaotic or confusing.” Kim Brooks

“When I was younger, I assumed all relationships were permanent.” Erin Flanagan

“I write to untangle my complicated feelings.”

I know that people can be led, by invitation, to notice the world and to relish it.

Novelist Nicola Harrison shares the inspiration for her latest novel, The Show Girl, and why she loves historical fiction.

Former Literary Mama Editor Jamie Sumner shares her journey to becoming an author and how to write great characters.

Mother and plant ecologist, Kimmerer invites us to examine and embrace the wonders of our world through the pillars of Indigenous wisdom.