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May/June 2023

No matter whether your children are in the other room or miles away from you, I hope you can find a quiet place to sit down and immerse yourself in the words and musings of your fellow mothers. It is always such a joy to review each issue before we publish, and marvel at how Literary Mama editors across time zones select and polish such beautiful work.

Letter From the Editor

Creative Nonfiction

  • How to Have a Miscarriage

    By Rae Katz

  • Later

    By Kate Lewis

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 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

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