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Welcome to our newest blog series: Where Are They Now? In this series, our editors interview past Literary Mama contributors to see what they’ve accomplished since publishing in LM and talk about their writing journeys. This week, Senior Editor and Poetry Editor Libby Maxey caught up with Susannah Q. Pratt, whose third Literary Mama essay will appear […]

Literary Mama was on my radar early on. I’d been an elementary school teacher and came to realize I wanted to be a writer who teaches, rather than a teacher who writes. I attended the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in summer 2007, where I was introduced to Literary Mama and other journals. I knew I wanted to submit at some point.