Writer Mother Monster: Katie Peterson

Writer Mother Monster

English - November 20, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MB
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(November 12, 2020) Writer Mother Monster: Interviews with Authoresses is an interview series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice. Hosted by Lara Ehrlich, author of Animal Wife (Red Hen Press, 2020).

Katie Peterson is the author of four collections of poetry, including A Piece of Good News, and her fable in lyric prose, Life in a Field, winner of the Omnidawn Open Books Prize, will be published in April 2021. Katie has received numerous fellowships, including from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and she collaborates with her husband, the photographer Young Suh. Katie, Young, and their daughter Emily live in Berkeley, where Katie directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at UC Davis. She has one daughter who is 3 and she describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: Always Play First.

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