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A Review of Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

Catherine Cho’s Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness explores postpartum psychosis with an emphasis on trauma and cultural underpinnings.

Reviews | March/April 2021 | By Nancy Reddy


looking out window into city

Lockdown

My arm aches from holding my cellphone to my ear with so many calls from her today. I lean into the armrest. I don’t tell her that I’m also tired, tired of worrying that she will die alone, without me, with only a stranger in a protective suit and an N95 facemask to comfort her.

Fiction | March/April 2021 | By Pamela Stutch


A Review of Women’s Work: A Personal Reckoning with Labor, Motherhood, and Privilege

Stack’s memoir, Women’s Work, chronicles the role of domestic helps in raising her child during her early parenting years abroad and the stark reality of these women’s sacrifices.

Reviews | March/April 2021 | By Nandini Patwardhan


A Profile of Pat Schneider

“I cannot teach anyone to be an artist, but then I don’t have to because everyone is already an artist.”

Profiles | March/April 2021 | By Susan Bruns Rowe


A Review of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines is an anthology that highlights marginalized voices and their perspectives of motherhood and life.

Reviews | March/April 2021 | By Kimberly Lee


A Conversation with Chloe Yelena Miller

“This was my hope—to join in a larger conversation about miscarriage—and I’m really touched that readers have found my work.”

Profiles | March/April 2021 | By Autumn Purdy


A Review of Viable

Viable is the poetic account of one mother’s halting, often heartbreaking, and hopeful steps to motherhood.

Reviews | March/April 2021 | By Amanda Finegold Swain


Balloons outside house in the snow

The Not-Megan Party

She wails and screams, “I hate all of you! I wish you would die and go to hell!” and throws hand weights and kicks. She bites and slashes skin. She is autistic. She is intense. I love her.

Fiction | March/April 2021 | By Rachel Hayes


Empty place at placesetting

Eating for Zero: A Chronicle of Pregnancy with Hyperemesis Gravidarum

You send Brian out with a shopping list of 37 Googled home remedies for morning sickness. He returns with the wrong brand of vitamin B6 and no hypnotist.

Fiction | March/April 2021 | By Ruyi Wen


Legs with sneakers standing on both sizes of a yellow line in the road.

Can You Tie My Shoe?

My nightly glasses of wine soon became empty bottles hidden in my endless quest for oblivion.

Creative Nonfiction | March/April 2021 | By Kris Martinez


Bubbles against mountains.

From the Editor: January/February 2021

I frequently find myself gritting my teeth, just trying to get through a period of time–the work day, a stage in my children’s development, an entire political regime.

From the Editor | January/February 2021 | By Andrea Lani


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