Kudos!

Congratulations to these Literary Mama staff members!

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Lisa Katzenberger, Fiction Editor, just signed with a literary agent and is now represented by Natascha Morris of BookEnds Literary.

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Laura Roberts, Blog Editor, published two humor pieces: “The Effectiveness of Feeding a Flock of Leucophaeus atrilla as a Method of Counteracting Querulous Behavior in a 10-Year-Old Male Child” at Defenestration, and “The Game of Cat” at The Higgs Weldon.

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Andrea Lani, Literary Reflections Editor, was thrilled that her humorous and hot short story, “Toy Story,” about a mom who finds herself in a sex toys shop, found a home in the anthology If Mom’s Happy: Stories of Erotic Mothers, which was released by Cwtch Press on May 1.

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Kim Ruff, Creative Nonfiction and Fiction Editorial Assistant, was selected as a recipient of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals (APMP) 2017 award for their “40 Under 40” contest.

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Whitney Archer, Columns Editor, had a piece published in Haymarket Lifestyle Magazine and was featured in this Kiplinger article on living with cancer.

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Kate Haas, Creative Nonfiction Editor, wrote an essay for Slate about her family’s experience hosting recently arrived refugees.

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Nerys Copelovitz, Literary Reflections Editorial Assistant, was published in Grown and Flown in May,  talking about her high school senior son’s unexpected revelation that he would miss school – and which one of them was really ready for him to graduate.

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Susan Rowe, Literary Reflections Editorial Assistant, received a 2017 Alexa Rose Foundation grant in May. The Alexa Rose Foundation supports the work of visual, performing, and literary artists in the Boise River Valley. She also published an essay titled The Congenitally Wonder-Addled Brian Doyle in Brevity’s blog.

Senior Editor and Literary Reflections Editor Libby Maxey’s review of Bluewords Greening by Christine Stewart-Nuñez recently appeared online at the Mom Egg Review, and her review of Ordinary Magic by Alison Stone was included in the Spring 2017 issue of Solstice.