Writer Mother Monster
95 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago -Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative pursuits. Hosted by Lara Ehrlich, author of ANIMAL WIFE (Red Hen Press, 2020).
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Writer Mother Monster: Stephanie Burt, "I was raised with the expectation that I would excel in a career and have time left over for kids, rather than the reverse, because the people who raised me didn’t know I was a girl."
April 25, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MB(April 24, 2021) Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, professor, and transgender activist who the New York Times called “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” She has two children, ages 11 and 15 and describes writer-motherhood in three words as “busy, conflicted, resourceful.” In this episode, Stephanie talks about claiming motherhood, finding kinship with Mr. Spock, the horror of The Giving Tree, the misery of octopus motherhood, role-playing games, X-Men, an...
Writer Mother Monster: Stephanie Burt
April 25, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBStephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard. Her most recent books are After Callimachus, poems and translations (Princeton UP, 2020) and Don’t Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems (Basic, 2019). A chapbook of poems about superheroes and other pop culture figures will appear from Rain Taxi this summer, and another full-length collection of poems from Graywolf in late 2022. She’s also at work on an anthology of queer and proto-queer poems from before the 20th century, with the cr...
Writer Mother Monster: Kim McLarin, "Writing was a way of imposing myself, of making a world that was hostile and wanted to render me invisible or dead acknowledge me and deal with me."
April 24, 2021 15:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MB“Writing was a way of imposing myself, of making a world that was hostile and wanted to render me invisible or dead acknowledge me and deal with me.” (April 22, 2021) Kim McLarin is a journalist, playwright, novelist, memoirist, literary critic, essayist, and co-author of a memoir by Malcolm X’s daughter Ilyasah Shabazz. She has two children, ages 21 and 23, and describes writer motherhood in three words as “contradictory, depleting, enriching.” In this episode, Kim talks about writing to ch...
Writer Mother Monster: Kim McLarin
April 24, 2021 15:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBKim McLarin is the author of three critically-acclaimed novels, the memoir Divorce Dog: Motherhood, Men, & Midlife and Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Life and Love. Her most recent book is a critical and personal examination of a favorite novel: James Baldwin's Another Country. McLarin's nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, Glamour, The Washington Post, Slate, The Root and other publications. She is a former staff writer for The New York Times, The Philadelphia In...
Writer Mother Monster: Riché Barnes
April 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MB(April 15, 2021) Riché J. Daniel Barnes is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Gender Studies at Mount Holyoke College. A socio-cultural anthropologist, Riché focuses on a broad range of issues concerning Black families and is the author of Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community (2016), in which she coined the term black strategic mothering. She has a 20-year-old daughter and twin 18-year-old sons, and she describes writer-motherhood ...
Writer Mother Monster: Riché Barnes, “Black women have had to come up with strategies for the survival of their children, families, and communities. It’s a toolkit passed down through the collective memory of Black mothers.”
April 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MB(April 15, 2021) Riché J. Daniel Barnes, a socio-cultural anthropologist who studies Black families, is the author of Raising the Race: Black Career Women Redefine Marriage, Motherhood, and Community. She has a 20-year-old daughter and twin 18-year-old sons, and she describes writer-motherhood in three words as: “Supporter. Creative. Industrious.” In this episode, Riché talks about raising kids while pursuing a PhD, redefining “family time,” and Black Strategic Mothering. And, she reveals th...
Writer Mother Monster: Special Episode, Writing Motherhood & Miscarriage with Shannon Gibney & Kao Kalia Yang
April 03, 2021 21:00 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBCW: Miscarriage (March 31, 2021) This special episode is devoted to an issue so many women struggle with, and so few people discuss. Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang, co-editors of What God Is Honored Here: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss by and for Native Women and Women of Color, talk about why it’s important to give voice to this common pain. Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of "having it all" and offering writer-moms solidarity, su...
Writer Mother Monster: Jennifer Chen, "My greatest pieces have come out of places of vulnerability and shame and fear.”
March 27, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBCW: Miscarriage (March 25, 2021) Jennifer Chen is a freelance journalist who has written for the New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, and Bust on subjects ranging from emotional labor and pro wrestling. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and twin 5-year-old daughters, and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “longest shortest time.” In this episode, Jennifer shares how to bathe twin newborns, how she deals with internet trolls, and why she writes about miscarriag...
Writer Mother Monster: Jennifer Chen
March 27, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MBJennifer Chen is a freelance journalist who has written for the New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, and Bust on subjects ranging from emotional labor and pro wrestling to miscarriage and the Stop Asian Hate Movement. She has an MFA and BFA in dramatic writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and is an alumnae of Hedgebrook, a women’s writing residency. Jennifer lives in Los Angeles with her TV-writer husband, twin 5-year-old daughters, and a snorty pug nam...
Writer Mother Monster: Rosanna Warren, “The book that I started in 1985 just came out in 2020, if that gives anybody courage to keep on going.”
March 12, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MB(March 11, 2021) Rosanna Warren has been publishing “poems of riveting, compassionate darkness and social conscience for nearly 40 years” (LA Review of Books) and is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and many others. She describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “frazzled, passionate, surprised.” In this episode, Rosanna talks about writing lines like knife stabs, growing up as the daughter of famou...
Writer Mother Monster: Rosanna Warren
March 12, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MB(March 11, 2021) Rosanna Warren, who teaches at the University of Chicago, has been publishing “poems of riveting, compassionate darkness and social conscience for nearly 40 years” (LA Review of Books); her most recent book of poems is So Forth (2020). She is the recipient of awards from the Academy of American Poets, The American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Lila Wallace Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the New England Poetry Club, amon...
Writer Mother Monster: Meagan McGovern
March 05, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MBMeagan McGovern writes fierce, funny, and true stories about the American food system, homeschooling, social justice, and the odd quirks of American life. She lives on a farm teetering on the far edge of the country in Washington state, raising beef, chickens, and children. She recently went viral in braids and a Target prairie dress, but her children, 10, 16 and 20, don’t think it’s nearly as funny as she does. She’s just finished a memoir about growing up on the run with a mother who was a...
Writer Mother Monster: Meagan McGovern, “Just because other people figured out how to use hangers doesn’t mean I’m ever gonna figure it out.”
March 05, 2021 16:00 - 1 hour - 45.7 MB“Just because other people figured out how to use hangers doesn’t mean I’m ever gonna figure it out. I mean, there’s certain things I just don’t want to spend my time doing.” (March 3, 2021) Meagan McGovern, who recently went viral in braids and a Target prairie dress, writes about homeschooling, social justice, and the odd quirks of American life. She lives on a farm in Washington state and just finished a memoir about growing up on the run with a mother who was a con artist. She describes ...
Writer Mother Monster: Beth Ann Fennelly, "My daughter came home from daycare smelling like another woman’s perfume. I had this sense of betrayal."
February 27, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MB(February 25, 2021) Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, has published 3 books of poetry and a book of essays, Great With Child: Letters to a Young Mother. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi, and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as, “monstrous, magical, mind-bending.” In this episode, Beth Ann talks about how reading about vomit led her down the poetry path, bartering haikus for hamburgers, and why society’s romanticized representation of mothers is damaging. Plus, she shares...
Writer Mother Monster: Beth Ann Fennelly
February 27, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBBeth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, is a 2020 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi. She has received grants and awards from the N.E.A., the United States Artists, a Pushcart, and a Fulbright to Brazil, and has published three books of poetry: Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables, all with W. W. Norton. Beth Ann’s poetry has been in over fifty anthologies, including Best American Poetry and The Penguin B...
Writer Mother Monster: Kristin Bair, “Every Facebook moms’ group has a provocateur.”
February 20, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MB(February 18, 2021) Kristin Bair is the author of three novels, most recently Agatha Arch Is Afraid of Everything, and writes about China, bears, adoption, and off-the-plot expats. She lives north of Boston with her husband and two kids and describes writer-motherhood in three words as “Are they asleep?” In this episode, Kristin talks about surviving COVID, the time a famous male poet stomped on her poetry, and why a teenager’s brain is like a snow globe. Plus, she shares what happened when ...
Writer Mother Monster: Lori L. Tharps, “My mom would tell me about a patient who lacerated his liver on the escalator because he didn’t tie his shoes.”
February 13, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MB(February 11, 2021) Lori L. Tharps is a journalist, podcast host, and author of a novel and 3 nonfiction books, including Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families. She has 3 kids and describes motherhood in 3 words as: “inspiring and exhausting.” In this episode, Lori talks about how her children’s different skin tones prompted her latest book, why she buys her kids only dark blue clothes, and how her mother gave her “the talk” by describing a badger’s persistent ...
Writer Mother Monster: Lori L. Tharps
February 13, 2021 19:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MB(February 11, 2021) Lori L. Tharps is an author, journalist, educator, podcast host, and popular speaker who is inspired by the collision of culture and color and fueled by creativity and passion. Lori has served as writer and/or editor for magazines, including Glamour, Parents, and Essence, and has written for The New York Times, The Root.com, and The Washington Post, among others. She is the author of the three nonfiction books, Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America; Ki...
Writer Mother Monster: Ann Hood, “When I was in labor, I was judging the Barnes and Noble First Book Award.”
February 03, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBCW: Child loss “When I was in labor, I was judging the Barnes and Noble First Book Award.” Ann Hood is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 novels, 4 memoirs, numerous other books, and possibly hundreds of essays. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with her husband and is the mother of Sam (27), Annabelle (16), and Grace, who passed away at age 5. In this episode, Ann talks finding a narrative in grief. She also shares stories from her modeling days and her time as a flight atte...
Writer Mother Monster: Ann Hood
February 03, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBCW: Child loss Ann Hood is the New York Times best-selling author of fourteen novels, four memoirs, a short story collection, a ten-book series for middle readers and one young adult novel. Her essays and short stories have appeared in many journals, magazines, and anthologies, including The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Tin House. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times‘ Op-Ed page, Home Economics column. Her most recent work is Kitchen Yarns, published with W.W. Norton and Co...
Writer Mother Monster: Rachel Zucker
January 29, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MBRachel Zucker is the author of 10 books, including, most recently, SoundMachine. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell Colony and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Zucker is an adjunct professor at New York University and at the Antioch Low Residency MFA program. Founder and host of the podcast Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and Other People), Zucker is working on an immersive audio project (also called SoundMachine) and a book of lectures call...
Writer Mother Monster: Rachel Zucker, “The person who made Candy Land should be killed.”
January 29, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour - 49.3 MB“The person who made Candy Land should be killed.” Rachel Zucker is the author of 10 books, including, most recently, SoundMachine. She lives in Maine where she is the mother of three boys ages 21, 20, and 13, and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as “attachment, attachment, attachment.” In this episode, she explains why she identifies with Rip Van Winkle, what it’s like to go through a divorce in the midst of a pandemic, and why she thinks the maker of Candy Land should be killed. Wri...
Writer Mother Monster: Elle Nash, “I loved being pregnant in Arkansas.”
January 19, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MB“I loved being pregnant in Arkansas.” Elle Nash is the author of the novel Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books), hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire.” She lives in Colorado with her husband and 3.5-year old daughter, and she describes writer-motherhood in three words as “boundary-building, productive.” In this episode, Elle talked about witchcraft, being pregnant in Arkansas, transgressive fiction, magic, mountains–and more! Find out if E...
Writer Mother Monster: Elle Nash
January 19, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBElle Nash is the author of the novel Animals Eat Each Other (Dzanc Books), which was featured in O – The Oprah Magazine, and hailed by Publishers Weekly as a “complex, impressive exploration of obsession and desire.” A small collection of stories, Nudes, is forthcoming from SF/LD Books in Spring 2021. Her short stories and essays appear in Guernica, The Nervous Breakdown, Literary Hub, The Fanzine, New York Tyrant and elsewhere. She is a founding editor of Witch Craft Magazine, a fiction edi...
Writer Mother Monster: Lyz Lenz, “Labias to the wall, ladies!”
January 15, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MB“Labias to the wall, ladies!” Lyz Lenz is the author of Belabored and God Land and her essay “All the Angry Women” was included in the anthology Not that Bad edited by Roxane Gay. She lives in Iowa with 2 kids and 2 cats and describes writing-motherhood in 3 words as “creative and chaotic.” In this episode, Lyz shares the story of how President Biden once (sarcastically) called her “a real sweetheart,” why she no longer matches her socks, and why men get mad at her. Find out why Lyz was kick...
Writer Mother Monster: Lyz Lenz
January 15, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBLyz Lenz’s writing has appeared in the Huffington Post, The Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Times, Pacific Standard, and others. Her book God Land was published in 2019, through Indiana University Press. Her second book Belabored, was published in 2020 by Bold Type Books. Lyz’s essay “All the Angry Women” was also included in the anthology Not that Bad edited by Roxane Gay. Lyz received her MFA in creative writing from Lesley University. She lives in Iowa with h...
Writer Mother Monster: Creating Community for Writer-Moms, with Scribente Maternum, “I’m for women being just a little bit selfish.”
January 14, 2021 21:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MB“I’m for women being just a little bit selfish.” This special episode explores how to create community around motherhood and writing with the co-founders of Scribente Maternum, a community of writers that explores our emotions as mothers, provides space to recharge, facilitates connections with other writers, and inspires personal and collective action. Featuring Rachel Berg Scherer, Carla du Pree, Caytie Pohlen-LaClare, and Elizabeth Doerr. Scribente Maternum at scribentematernum.com. Wri...
Writer Mother Monster: Creating Community for Writer-Moms, with Scribente Maternum
January 14, 2021 21:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBIn this special episode of Writer Mother Monster, Lara Ehrlich speaks with community writing group Scribente Maternum to offer actionable advice for how writer-moms can seek out, create, and participate in writer-mom communities. Scribente’s co-founders share their perspectives on writer-motherhood, particularly how their personal experiences inspired them to found Scribente Maternum. And, we hear about the Scribente Maternum retreat in February 2021 and what writers can expect to gain from ...
Writer Mother Monster: Melanie Conroy-Goldman
January 08, 2021 02:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBWriter Mother Monster is an interactive interview series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice. Melanie Conroy-Goldman is the author of the novel The Likely World (Red Hen Press). A Professor of Creative Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, she was a founding director of the Trias Residency for Writers. Her fiction has been published in Southern Review, StoryQuarterly, in anthologies from Morrow and St. Martin’s an...
Writer Mother Monster: Melanie Conroy-Goldman, “Motherhood turns you into a milk cow.”
January 08, 2021 02:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MB“Motherhood turns you into a milk cow.” Melanie Conroy-Goldman is the author of The Likely World and a Professor of Creative Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She volunteers at a maximum security men’s prison and lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband, daughter and step-daughters. Melanie describes writer-motherhood in three words as: “richly entangled identities.” In this episode, she talks about balancing addiction and motherhood, the urgent need for childcare, and crossin...
Writer Mother Monster: Katie Gutierrez
December 17, 2020 21:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MBWriter Mother Monster is an interview series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice. Today's guest is writer-mom Katie Gutierrez. Katie lives in San Antonio, TX, with her husband and two young children, who are 2 and a half years old and three and a half months old. She has an MFA from Texas State University, and her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Longreads, Catapult, and more. Her debut novel, More Than You'll...
Writer Mother Monster: Katie Gutierrez, “I was surprised at the depth of my anxiety.”
December 17, 2020 21:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MB“I was surprised at the depth of my anxiety.” Katie Gutierrez is the author of More Than You’ll Ever Know, forthcoming from William Morrow in 2022. She lives in San Antonio, TX, with her husband and two children, ages 2.5 years and 3.5 months and describes writer-motherhood in three words as “never enough time.” In this episode, Katie shares that she signed her book contract while breastfeeding. She talks about exploring desire, challenging the messages about motherhood she’d internalized, a...
Writer Mother Monster: Daria Polatin, “There’s only so much pie, you know?”
December 07, 2020 22:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MB“There’s only so much pie, you know?” Daria Polatin is a playwright, TV writer-producer and author who is developing a TV limited series based on her novel Devil in Ohio for Netflix. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and 11-week-old son and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “stunning, shifting, softening.” In this episode, Daria talks about what it’s like to maintain a fast-paced career in television with a newborn at home…in a pandemic. And, find out why she didn’t tell her...
Writer Mother Monster: Daria Polatin
December 07, 2020 22:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MB(December 7, 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). Daria Polatin is an award-winning playwright, TV writer-producer and author. Daria is currently developing a TV limited series based on her novel DEVIL IN OHIO for Netflix. She was a Co-Executive Producer on J.J. Abrams’ CAST...
Writer Mother Monster: Katie Peterson
November 20, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MB(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 re...
Writer Mother Monster: Katie Peterson, “Dolly Parton and Obama are really good grownups.”
November 20, 2020 18:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MB“Dolly Parton and Obama are really good grownups.” Katie Peterson is the author of four collections of poetry and directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at UC Davis. She lives in Berkeley, California with her husband and their 3-year-old daughter, and she describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “always play first.” In this episode, Katie talks about how having a daughter has awakened her to her own animal nature, her generation’s ambivalence about family, finding poems on walks, what...
Writer Mother Monster: Tzynya Pinchback
November 12, 2020 23:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBNote: Due to technical difficulties, there may be moments of awkwardness in this interview. Apologies! (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). Tzynya Pinchback writes poetry shaped like prose and essays that would rather be poems. She’s the author of How to Make P...
Writer Mother Monster: Tzyyna Pinchback
November 12, 2020 23:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBNote: Due to technical difficulties, there may be moments of awkwardness in this interview. Apologies! (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). Tzynya Pinchback writes poetry shaped like prose and essays that would rather be poems. She’s the author of How to Make P...
Writer Mother Monster: Tzynya Pinchback, “Getting cancer made me a better writer.”
November 12, 2020 23:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBNote: Due to technical difficulties, there may be moments of awkwardness in this interview. Apologies! “Getting cancer made me a better writer.” Tzynya Pinchback is the author of the book of poetry How to Make Pink Confetti and was a finalist for 2020 Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts. She lives in Massachusetts, has a 23-year-old daughter, and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as: “primal. theater. sanctuary.” In this episode, Tzynya shares how her poetry has evolved throughout...
Writer Mother Monster: Liz Harmer
October 28, 2020 22:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MB(October 28, 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). Liz Harmer is a Canadian living in California. Her first novel, The Amateurs, a speculative novel of technological rapture, was released with Knopf/Vintage in 2019. Her stories, essays, and poems have been published in Lit H...
Writer Mother Monster: Liz Harmer, “I’m interested in my own desire.”
October 28, 2020 22:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MB“I’m interested in my own desire.” Liz Harmer is the author of The Amateurs and Strange Loops, forthcoming in 2022. She’s a Canadian living in California with her children who are 13, 11, and 8, and describes motherhood in 3 words as “challenge and delight.” Liz came to our interview straight from the ER, and there’s probably a lesson in there about how mothers feel the need to be superwomen, pushing ourselves to exhaustion. She also talks about transgression, mental health, and the evolutio...
Writer Mother Monster: Blair Hurley, “It’s a powerful desire to become.”
October 22, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MB“It’s a powerful desire to become.” Blair Hurley is the author of the novel, The Devoted, and lives in Canada with her husband and 7-month-old daughter. Blair shares her joy in new motherhood and her eagerness to see how this shift in her identity will play out in her writing. She explores the difference between sentiment and sentimentality in writing, why we pass judgement on transgressive women characters, and writing on a thin edge between tenderness and viciousness. Writer Mother Monste...
Writer Mother Monster: Blair Hurley
October 22, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MB(October 22, 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). Blair Hurley received her A.B. from Princeton University and her M.F.A. from NYU. Her stories are published or forthcoming in Ninth Letter, The Georgia Review, West Branch, Mid-American Review, Washington Square, Hayden’s Fer...
Writer Mother Monster: Amy Shearn
October 15, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MB(October 15, 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). Amy Shearn is the author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here. She is a senior editor at Forge and a fiction editor at Joyland, and her work has appeared in the New York Times...
Writer Mother Monster: Amy Shearn, “Growing a person in my guts. That’s bananas.”
October 15, 2020 22:00 - 1 hour - 44.6 MB“Growing a person in my guts. That’s bananas.” Amy Shearn is the author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here and lives in Brooklyn with her children ages 9 and 11. In this episode, Amy talks about giving up on perfection, how divorce has impacted her writing, practicing stoicism, and how “bananas” it is “to grow a person in your guts.” Find out how a woman at a playground inspired Amy’s second book. Writer Mother Monster is an interview seri...