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July/August 2022

Although motherhood can restrict our view of the world, especially in the early years, it also expands our perspective and teaches us to look more deeply inward and more carefully outward—and to do more with what we see. That’s both empowering and humbling, and the work in our latest issue highlights that complex contradiction.

Letter From the Editor

Creative Nonfiction

  • The Woodpecker

    By Annie Marhefka

  • Don’t Spook the Teenager

    By Mandy Osterhaus Ream

Fiction

  • Awakening

    By Julie Mehta

Literary Reflections

  • Come Up With Something New: On Manuscripts, Mothering, and Writing the Book You Have to Write

    By Anne Zimmerman

  • A Grandmother’s Tale

    By Linda Stallman Gibson

Poetry

  • Aftershock

    By Giuliana Certo

  • Rummage Sale

    By Heidi Slettedahl

  • Seasonal Son

    By Laurinda Lind

  • Words My Daughter Knows at 18 Months

    By Victoria Livingstone

  • Picking Sunflowers While Pregnant

    By Richelle Buccilli

  • Viable

    By Rebecca Faulkner

  • Parenting Advice

    By Claire Taylor

  • Cardiotocography

    By Lisa Marie Oliver

  • Cervical

    By Marda Messick

Profiles

  • On Being a Teen Sleep Advocate: A Conversation with Lisa L. Lewis

    By Holly Rizzuto Palker

  • There’s Always a Way Through: A Conversation with Andrea Lani

    By Christina Consolino

  • Breaking Walls and Crossing Thresholds: A Conversation with Vanessa Hua

    By Lolita Pierce

  • Hijacking Motherhood and Making It Real: A Conversation with Jacinda Townsend

    By Lolita Pierce

  • Mother’s Love, Forgiveness, and Sacrifice: A Conversation with Anna E. Collins

    By Sheryl Zedeck Katz

Reviews

  • Living Like a Hero: A Review of Forbidden City

    By Lolita Pierce

  • Finding More Than What Is Vanished: A Review of The Night She Went Missing

    By Angélique Jamail

  • Truth in Pregnancy: A Review of Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

    By Jennifer Cox

  • Transnational Motherhood: A Review of Mother Country

    By Amanda Fields

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