January/February 2026

Creative Nonfiction

• Pests

  By Michelle Spinei

• Running on One Shoe

  By Jenn Morrill

• Spill

  By Jules Foshee

Fiction

• The Evening Trimesters: A Guide to Your Afterbirth 

  By Rachel Geman

Literary Reflections

• Please Do Not Disturb

  By Lisa Bleasdale

Poetry

• Will we know what to do when our kid gets sick?

  By Jo Matthews

• Westside Lanes

  By Lauren Tess

• On Being Given a Photograph from 1929

  By Andrea Potos

• Astounded by Grace

  By Mary Ellen Talley

• Parenthood

  By Joan Roger

• Wonder Woman

  By Judith Sornberger

• Dawn (39 Weeks)

  By Carly Samudre

• knees

  By Shannon K. Evans

• My Son and the Moon

  By Alyse Carlson

Profiles

• “Infertility Turned the Initial Abstraction into Obsession:” A Conversation with Samantha Browning Shea

  By Brianna Avenia-Tapper

• The Need to Name: A Conversation with Emily Patterson

  By Rebecca Brock

Reviews

• Activism, Resistance, Persistence: A Review of Helen Charman’s Mother State 

  By Joanna Garbutt

• Philosophical Force, Quiet Rumination: A Review of Mothers and Other Fictional Characters

  By Jocelyn Jane Cox

• Purity Culture’s Exertion Over Women in Anna Rollins’s Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl

  By Melissa Fraterrigo