an ongoing series of essays and interviews that examine creativity, productivity, writing process, and getting unstuck
in PANK
Kitchen Table MFA: An Alternative to the NYC/MFA Binary
a series of profiles of community writing organizations including Pittsburgh’s Madwomen in the Attic, Madison’s Arts + Literature Laboratory, Atlantic City’s World Above, and New Orleans’s Dogfish
in F(r)iction Lit
Motherhood Has Always Been Political—Now, Books About It Are, Too
A crop of new nonfiction works are examining how historical, social, and governmental forces shape motherhood
in Electric Literature
We Need to Talk About Whiteness in Motherhood Memoirs
White women get to challenge the narrative of child-rearing, but not everyone has that power
in Electric Literature
There’s no I in team—but there is a doula
My doula provided support to both me and my husband so we could labor together as a team.
in Motherfigure
How I Wrote “Your Best Post-Baby Body”
My own postpartum body was an untrustworthy, leaky container, and I’ve become interested in the poem as a porous container.
a craft essay in The Adroit Journal’s “How I Wrote” series