Kudos!
CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE LITERARY MAMA STAFF MEMBERS!
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Libby Maxey, Literary Reflections Co-Editor: “I had a poem in the winter issue of Brain of Forgetting, another in the 2015 issue of The Mom Egg Review, and two in the spring issue of Off the Coast. As always, I thank the LM blog for reminding me to submit when I might otherwise forgot to bother.”
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Alissa McElreath, Senior Columns Editor, had a piece published in Runner’s World online.
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Caroline Grant, Former Editor-in-Chief: “I’ll add my piece in The Mid this month, about watching the Dawn Wall climbers ascend El Capitan while realizing that my mom is making a long descent.”
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Suzanne Kamata, Fiction Co-Editor: Two of my poems were published in The Wide Shore, and I published an essay on traveling with my daughter – “War and Peace and Napoleon” in Transnational Literature. Also, I had a small brush with fame as my book Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering was used as a prop in the movie “Stockholm, Pennsylvania” starring Cynthia Nixon.”
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In the May issue of Literary Mama:
Erin Rodoni, Poetry Editorial Assistant, published her poem: Postcards from my Childhood.
Christina Consolina, Profiles Co-Editor, published her profile: A Conversation with Julie Paul.
Camille-Yvette Welsch, Reviews Co-Editor, published her review: For Everything There is a Season: A Review of Cassie Premo Steele’s Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony Through Journaling and Nature.
Amanda Jaros, Blog Co-Editor, published her essay: Temporary Custody.
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Rachel Epp Buller, Profiles Co-Editor spoke at the Motherhood and Creative Practice conference in London and then at The Mothernists, hosted by m/other voices in Rotterdam.
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Kate Haas, Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor: “It’s been a busy spring! The New York Times Motherlode published my essay “Hey, Who Plays the Cello?” about my twelve-year-old, his instrument, and a guy at a party. “Making Memories the Old Fashioned Way” came out in the Washington Post, about why I make old-school photo albums in this digital age. And for Dame, I wrote “I Took Fashion Advice From Louisa May Alcott,” about my glamorous sister’s attempt to de-frumpify me.”
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Susan Ito, Creative Nonfiction Co-Editor: “I’m very proud to announce that I got a Theater Bay Area grant to write a play about reproductive stigma and choice, based on the anthology Untold Stories: Love, Life and Reproduction. I will be writing this in collaboration with Lisa Marie Rollins and we’ve also received significant support from the Sea Change Project and Brava Theater. If all goes well, we should be in production in the fall of 2016.”
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Jennifer Cognard-Black, Reviews Co-Editor: “A Clean Shot,” in Valparaiso Fiction Review. “American Gothic,” in PoemMemoirStory. “Eating, Reading, and Recipes,” in The Faculty Voice, University of Maryland. She was a visiting writer at Georgetown Senior Center. She gave the following readings: Selections from Books that Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal: The Ohio State University, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, New York Public Library.