Literary Mama

Okay, I’ve dropped the ball and haven’t featured any editors in too long…and now we have some new additions to our crew. Nicole Stellon O’Donnell, Columns Editor, is a poet and essayist who lives in Fairbanks, Alaska with her husband and two daughters. Her poetry has appeared in various literary magazines, including Ice Floe, The […]

Got any newsletter or marketing experience? Literary Mama is seeking an e-zine editor! Work entails formatting and copy editing the weekly newsletter on a strict deadline, as well as research and reporting (not on deadline) about what kinds of blurbs generate the most click-throughs, what kind of content our readers are most hungry for, and […]

Job description: Update the content of the Web site on a weekly schedule, using Moveable Type, FTP, and HTML. Maintain the integrity of the site: update templates and style sheets, fix broken links and outdated code, add new departments or sections as the site grows, and filter and report C Panel statistics. Work closely with […]

Maria Scala, one of LM’s Columns Editors, is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Toronto with her husband and daughter. Her poetry and non-fiction have appeared in Descant, PoetryReviews.ca, mamazine, Literary Mama, Between O and V, among others. You can find Maria blogging on August Avenue.

In continuation of the Who We Are section, this week we are highlighting LM’s Literary Reflections Editorial Assistant, Violeta Garcia-Mendoza, is a Spanish-American poet and writer. Her poetry has appeared in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Cicada and Soleado, and her book reviews regularly appear in RainbowKids Magazine. Violeta posts Bluestocking columns and Bookshelf recommendations on her […]

To continue our Who We Are section, the next on the list is Caroline Grant, Literary Reflections Editor, who writes the column Mama at the Movies for Literary Mama. She is also co-editor, with Elrena Evans, of the anthology Mama, PhD: Women Write About Motherhood and Academic Life (Rutgers University Press, 2008). She holds a […]

In continuation of the Who We Are posting,next up on our list is Suzanne Kamata, Fiction Co-Editor, lives with her Japanese husband and bi-cultural twins on the island of Shikoku in Japan. She is the editor of the anthology The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan, and the author of numerous stories, essays, […]

Next up in the Who We Are category is Susan Ito, Fiction Co-Editor who blogs at ReadingWritingLiving. Susan lives in Oakland, CA with her husband, two daughters and mother. She teaches writing privately and at UC Berkeley Extension. She is the co-editor of A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption (North Atlantic […]

Each week, we will introduce you to one of the women behind Literary Mama, including a link to her blog and/or website. Our diverse group of talented, smart and creative women work hard to honor “the difficult and rewarding work women do as they move into motherhood by making these stories visible.” First up: Kathy […]

Los Angeles writer, playwright, and performer Karen Rizzo wrote the book Things to Bring, S#!t to Do . . . and other inventories of anxiety made entirely out of lists she’s saved since she was a child. 1) The memoir was a 2006 Book Sense Highlight for ‘Fascinating Lives’ 2) Our interview with her is […]

Notes from the Underbelly is getting decidedly mixed reviews, but read one Literary Mama’s take on it. Former LM columnist Liz Finn-Arnold reviews the new sitcom over on TV Squad.