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September/October 2022

Reframing our perceptions of the time we have to read, write, and think—to value the incredible and varied insights of mothers—is so worth it. We’re grateful and honored that you’re here to dip into this September/October collection of mama writing.

Letter From the Editor

Creative Nonfiction

  • Fog and Sun

    By Dorian Kingman Chong

  • So Done

    By Sarah Kovatch

Fiction

  • Back at the Start

    By Joanna Garbutt

  • In This Country All Mothers Are Goddesses

    By Prarthana J.A.

  • Noelle Strodemeyer Sucks

    By Kim Magowan

Literary Reflections

  • Creativity and Motherhood Are Not at Odds

    By Janelle Sheetz

Poetry

  • sink

    By Luciana Francis

  • when i was a cloud

    By Elizabeth Cranford Garcia

  • There but for the Grace Of

    By Catherine Gander

  • Premature

    By Jillian Barnet

  • Departures

    By Rosalind Adam

  • What Is True

    By Catherine D’Andrea

  • I Spend Two Nights Away from My Husband and Son

    By Richelle Buccilli

  • When the principal asks if we experienced any boundary issues

    By Batnadiv HaKarmi

  • incompetent

    By Kristina Pfleegor

Profiles

  • Describing the “Pain-Thing”: A Conversation with Jody Keisner

    By Bridget Lillethorup

  • Leap Through Quickening Sky: A Conversation with Mary Beth Hines

    By Brianna Avenia-Tapper

  • Truth is My Jam: A Conversation with Taylor Harris

    By Christina Consolino

Reviews

  • Connecting to Find Her Voice: A Review of Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature

    By Holly Rizzuto Palker

  • Embracing Challenges: A Review of Ain’t That a Mother: Postpartum, Palsy, and Everything in Between

    By Tamara MC

  • Essential Reading: A Review of Essential Labor: Mothering As Social Change

    By Jennifer Fischer

  • Many Lives, Many Seasons: A Review of Winter at a Summer House

    By Libby Maxey

  • Understanding Identity: A Review of A Girlhood: Letter to My Transgender Daughter

    By Heather Frese

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