May/June 2023

Creative Nonfiction

• How to Have a Miscarriage

  By Rae Katz

Fiction

• A Day in the Life of a Children’s Book Author

  By Katia Wish

• Ginkgo Biloba

  By Zsófia Czakó & Marietta Morry & Walter Burgess (Translators)

• The Drumstick Tree

  By Ravibala Shenoy

Literary Reflections

• Lessons from Lambing Season

  By Jessica Gigot

• Reaching for My Pen

  By Andrea McCullough

Poetry

• Thetis Speaks to Her Sisters 

  By Kerry Ryan

• New Mother Poem

  By Alessandra Simmons

• I Don’t Buy My Children Toy Guns

  By Amy Ralston Seife

• The Smallest Shadow

  By Kathryn Petruccelli

• The Bear

  By Amanda Roth

• Anatomies

  By Isabel Soto

• Motherspeak

  By Anna Abraham Gasaway

• Goat in the Corner

  By Deborrah Corr

• Body Swap

  By Gillian Shearer

Profiles

• Abortion as an Act of Motherhood: A Conversation with Hannah Matthews

  By Meghan Flaherty

• Give Yourself Grace: A Conversation with DW McKinney

  By Hannah Grieco

• I’m Not So Happy For You: A Conversation with Amy Klein

  By Brianna Avenia-Tapper

• Prose Like a Poet and Permission Slips: A Conversation with Maggie Smith

  By Cindy DiTiberio

• Too Important to Stay Quiet: A Conversation with Jennifer Weiner

  By Holly Rizzuto Palker

• We’re All Stretch Armstrong Dolls: A Conversation with Jessica Grose

  By Holly Rizzuto Palker

Reviews

• Clicking Our Way to Maternal Bliss: A Review of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

  By Nicole Graev Lipson

• Finding Common Ground: A Review of American Honey: A Field Guide to Resisting Temptation

  By Dorothy Rowena Rice

• Stet the Tears: A Review of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

  By Amanda Fields

• The Ghost of Grief: A Review of Naming the Ghost

  By Sherre Vernon