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Katherine J. Barrett

Katherine J. Barrett is a former senior editor for Literary Mama and  current editor-in-chief for Understorey Magazine. A mother to three young boys, Katherine recently returned to Canada after four years in South Africa. She is the author of the Literary Mama columns Mother City Mama and Of This Fantastic Peach. Katherine holds a PhD in Botany and Ethics and has previously taught at the University of British Columbia.

Katherine lives in Nova Scotia with her family.

Contributions:

Reviews

From Text to Table: A Review of Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal

Of This Fantastic Peach

Bones

Of This Fantastic Peach

All Together Now

Of This Fantastic Peach

In the Skin of a Marshmallow

How to Talk to Your Kids about Genetic Modification

Reviews

Demeter Press: Publishing Groundbreaking Motherhood Studies for Eight Years—and Counting

Of This Fantastic Peach

Dangerous Cooking for Boys

Reviews

A Review of Ghostbelly: A Memoir

Profiles

A Conversation with Room Magazine Editor Lorrie Miller

Reviews

A Literary Smörgåsbord: Five New Books on Food and Family

Reviews

Book Bites: New Books from Seal Press

Of This Fantastic Peach

Tube or Not Tube?

Of This Fantastic Peach

Winter Greens

Of This Fantastic Peach

What’s Your Ravioli?

Reviews

A Review of What’s Your Book?: Part of Our Mini-Series on the Craft of Writing

Columns, Of This Fantastic Peach

Whacked, Whipped, and Wicked

Of This Fantastic Peach

Molasses: The Sweet, the Sticky, the Downright Fishy

Reviews

What’s Mine Is Yours: A Review of Three Memoirs on Surrogacy

Of This Fantastic Peach

Blueberry Grunts

Book Note: Your Child’s Writing Life

Of This Fantastic Peach

Of This Fantastic Peach

Reviews

Do the Right Thing, Baby: A Review of Honeycomb Kids and A Million Tiny Things

Mother City Mama

Moving

Profiles

An Interview with Betty Jane Hegerat

Book Note: Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies? The Surprising Science of Pregnancy

Mother City Mama

Mamas on the Loose

Book Note: Algoma

Mother City Mama

Recycle, Rethink, Respect

Profiles

An Interview with Naseem Rakha

Mother City Mama

The UBuntu of Mother City Mama

Mother City Mama

When Mothers Talk

Mother City Mama

In Good Faith: Halloween in a Foreign Land

Reviews

Mamas Writing Motherhood: A Conversation on New and Best Books on Craft

Mother City Mama

You Have Struck A Rock: Women’s Day in South Africa

Mother City Mama

My Lucky Stars

Mother City Mama

I’m Beige; You’re Brown

Book Winners!

Mother City Mama

Everyone’s Baby

Blog Book Review: Something to Prove: A Daughter’s Journey to Fulfill a Father’s Legacy

Mother City Mama

Mother City Mama

Win A Copy of Buzz: A Year of Paying Attention

Blog Book Review: Geographies of Light, Poems by Lisa Suhair Majaj

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