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Take it Back

She carries the dark seed / sown in her tiny wrinkled brain / before she was born.

Poetry | November /December 2020 | By Therese Gleason


I Am Your Mother

Your children ask for their birth stories / and you sew a more dazzling quilt each time.

Poetry | November /December 2020 | By Natalie Marino


A Conversation with Cherene Sherrard

“Grimoire hones in on maternal health and labor—the physical and psychic work it takes to bear and rear Black children.”

Profiles | November /December 2020 | By Kimberly Lee


Contrast Effect

When she was an infant, I would cup her tiny feet in my hands, close my fingers around them, and make them disappear.

Creative Nonfiction | November /December 2020 | By Lindsay Rutherford


Tiny house in woods

The Tiny House

The tiny house has a force field around it, because it must.

Creative Nonfiction | November /December 2020 | By Naomi Adiv


A Routine Visit

It was a routine visit, but my heart was cartwheeling in anticipation of a test I couldn’t study for.

Creative Nonfiction | November /December 2020 | By Cheryl Klein


Red and yellow paper cranes

Letting Go of Life and LEGO Bricks

Despite my efforts, Mom’s drinking problem seeped through until I could no longer hide the stain.

Creative Nonfiction | November /December 2020 | By Jessica Abshire


A Review of Seconds and Inches

Seconds and Inches is a deeply introspective memoir about the ways in which trauma can move through a family and how, despite the impact and the suffering, one woman sought out love, connection, and gratitude to reclaim her life.

Reviews | November /December 2020 | By Wendy Fontaine


A Review of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

This is the story of domestic violence homicide, the immediate victims, yes but also the riptide that tears through the lives of those left behind.

Reviews | November /December 2020 | By Wendy Knight


A Review of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

A Finalist in the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies tells the fraught and aching stories of church-going black women wrestling with their desires.

Reviews | November /December 2020 | By DW McKinney


A Review of My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After

An evocative collection as diverse as the mother-writers featured, My Caesarean explores and exposes the realities of C-sections with raw honesty and visceral beauty, and opens wide the conversation about surgical births.

Reviews | November /December 2020 | By Autumn Purdy


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