Kudos!
Congratulations to these Literary Mama Staff members!
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Reviews Editor Rudri Bhatt Patel published the print piece, “No Place to Go: Exploring the Landscape of Maternity Health Care Deserts,” for Rural Health Quarterly. She also published the piece, “How to Talk to Loved Ones about Late-Stage Ovarian Cancer,” for WebMD and “Educational Resources for Seniors,” for FAR.com. For Apartment Therapy, she published, “5 Lessons I Gained from Learning Two Languages at Once.” The Association of Writers and Writing Programs chose her panel, “The Intersection of Art and Revenue: Writing for Literary and Mainstream Outlets,” as a presentation for the 2023 conference.
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Managing Editor Jenny Bartoy published two hybrid pieces in the latest issue of Permafrost Magazine. “That Snake” recounts in vignettes three encounters with snakes and touches on domestic violence, motherhood, and the circle of life. “He bought us a farmhouse in the country” is written in the voice of a thirteen-year-old, silenced by a controlling parent and longing for escape.
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Profiles Editor Brianna Avenia-Tapper recently published a short essay about marriage, water-bugs, and uncertainty titled Love Bugs at Hobart. Her longer piece, titled Fertility Awareness, about miscarriage, organ transplants, and gardens (among other things) was featured in the summer issue of the Tahoma Literary Review. Her review of Jill Christman’s essay collection If This Were Fiction was published at Barrelhouse in September.
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Senior Editor Andrea Lani’s essay “Alligator Pear,” about sprouting avocados as a pandemic coping strategy, was published in Stonecrop Review, Issue 5: Flora in June. In July, her essay “Five Hundred Miles” was reprinted in the 2022 issue of the journal Deep Wild. The piece distills some of the lessons learned on a long-distance hiking trip she took with her family, which she explores more fully in her book Uphill Both Ways: Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail, published in March by Bison Books. Former Literary Mama editor Christina Consolino interviewed Andrea about the book in our July/August issue.
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Senior Editor and Poetry Editor Libby Maxey published two poems in Talking River Review this summer, two more in Transom this fall, and another in the latest issue of Whale Road Review. She also contributed a review of Mary Beth Hines’s poetry collection, Winter at a Summer House, to the September/October issue of Literary Mama.