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Writer Mother Monster: Megan Stielstra
Writer Mother Monster - February 25, 2024 01:00 - 59 minutesMegan Stielstra is the author of three collections: Everyone Remain Calm, Once I Was Cool, and The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, the Nonfiction Book of the Year from the Chicago Review of Books. Her work appears in the Best American Essays, New York Times, The Believer, Poets & Writers, Tin House...
Writer Mother Monster: Fox North
Writer Mother Monster - December 30, 2023 22:00 - 56 minutesFox North (call them Fox!) is a critically acclaimed novelist for teenagers and adults. Fox, a graduate of the University of Florida’s MFA program in poetry, was a finalist in 2018 with the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the recipient of a Creatives Rebuild NY grant, a Publisher’s Weekly Flying St...
In-Person Episode: Janet Garcia-Hallett
Writer Mother Monster - October 18, 2023 14:00 - 48 minutesWelcome to a special live episode of Writer Mother Monster, a community and conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice. The show is typically streamed live on Facebook and YouTube, and then released as an audio po...
Writer Mother Monster: Special Episode, Postpartum Psychosis
Writer Mother Monster - March 30, 2023 12:00 - 1 hourA panel discussion with Chaya Bhuvaneswar, a psychiatrist and author of White Dancing Elephants, who has treated postpartum patients in-hospital, including at a forensic psych ward for women awaiting trial for harming their children. Sharline Chiang is a writer, editor, book coach, publicist, an...
Writer Mother Monster: Elizabeth Nunez
Writer Mother Monster - March 20, 2023 13:00 - 1 hourElizabeth Nunez emigrated from Trinidad to the US at age 19. Winner of an American Book Award, an Independent Publishers Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, and a Hurston Wright Legacy Award, she is the author of a memoir and ten novels, four of which were selected as New York Times Editors Choi...
Writer Mother Monster: Samantha Silva
Writer Mother Monster - February 22, 2023 17:00 - 56 minutesSAMANTHA SILVA is an author, playwright, and screenwriter based in Idaho. She’s sold film projects to Paramount, Universal, and New Line Cinema, and she is the author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol (Flatiron Books, 2017), and Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft (Flatiron Books, 2021). Sa...
Writer Mother Monster: Rebecca Makkai
Writer Mother Monster - February 15, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour(February 14, 2023) Rebecca Makkai’s last novel, THE GREAT BELIEVERS, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the LA Times Book Prize; and it was one of the New York Times’...
Writer Mother Monster: Artress Bethany White
Writer Mother Monster - February 10, 2023 14:00 - 57 minutesArtress Bethany White, associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University, is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection My Afmerica: poems and the essay collection, Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Identity, wh...
Writer Mother Monster: Lisa Czarina Michaud
Writer Mother Monster - February 03, 2023 14:00 - 59 minutesLisa Czarina Michaud is an American novelist of Italian-Mexican origins whose work is inspired by her life experiences. She attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington before stumbling through adulthood in Los Angeles. In 2009, she followed in the footsteps of her jazz-singing gr...
Writer Mother Monster: Sarah M Jasat
Writer Mother Monster - January 13, 2023 22:00 - 56 minutes(November 3, 2022) Sarah M Jasat grew up believing her family was very strange but later discovered she was Indian. She lives in Leicester, UK, and writes short fiction about the strangeness of family. She dreams about writing a novel for older children if only she could get her own children to ...
Writer Mother Monster: Anna Hogeland
Writer Mother Monster - January 13, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour(December 1, 2022) Anna Hogeland is a psychotherapist in private practice, with an MSW from Smith College School of Social Work and an MFA from UC Irvine. She lives in Vermont. Her essays have appeared in LitHub, Gloss, Big Issue, and elsewhere. The Long Answer, sold in 8 countries to date, is h...
Writer Mother Monster: Yexandra Diaz
Writer Mother Monster - January 13, 2023 22:00 - 56 minutes(November 10, 2022) Yexandra “Yex” Diaz is a multi-disciplinary artist whose oeuvre is her sobering expression of what it is to exist in a world of resistance, resilience, and revolution during a new era of renaissance rooted in healing. Chicago born and New Haven raised, the polarizing reality ...
Writer Mother Monster: Caroline Hagood
Writer Mother Monster - January 13, 2023 22:00 - 1 hour(January 10, 2023) Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing and Director of Undergraduate Writing at St. Francis College in Brooklyn. She is the author of the poetry books, Lunatic Speaks and Making Maxine’s Baby, the book-length essay, Ways of Looking at a...
Writer Mother Monster: Lindsay Lerman
Writer Mother Monster - October 27, 2022 15:00 - 58 minutes(October 27) Lindsay Lerman is the author of two experimental novels, I’m From Nowhere (2019) and What Are You (2022). She is also a translator. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy and sometimes teaches philosophy and creative writing. Her essays and short stories have been published in LA Review of B...
Writer Mother Monster: Toni McLellan
Writer Mother Monster - October 20, 2022 15:00 - 57 minutes(October 20) Toni McLellan is a marketing writer by day and a round-the-clock phrase-gatherer. For two decades, she’s written for major magazines and brands, including a stint as an outdoor family travel writer. She’s also published essays with Outside, KitchenAid, and Fort Collins Magazine. In ...
Writer Mother Monster: Caroline S. Leavitt
Writer Mother Monster - October 13, 2022 15:00 - 57 minutes(October 13) Caroline Leavitt is the NYT Bestselling author of 13 novels, including With or Without You and Cruel Beautiful World. She is also the cofounder of A Mighty Blaze, a blogger/columnist for Psychology Today, and a book critic for People Magazine. A New York Foundation of the Arts Fello...
Writer Mother Monster: Shin Yu Pai
Writer Mother Monster - October 08, 2022 14:00 - 55 minutesShin Yu Pai is a poet, essayist, and visual artist. She is the author of several books of poetry, including VIRGA (Empty Bowl, 2021), and served as the fourth poet laureate of the city of Redmond. In 2014, Shin Yu was nominated for a Stranger Genius Award in Literature. She is the creator and ho...
Writer Mother Monster: Elana Bell
Writer Mother Monster - September 09, 2022 14:00 - 58 minutes(May 19) Elana Bell is the author of Mother Country (BOA Editions in 2020), poems about fertility, motherhood, and mental illness. She is also the founder of the Mother-Artist Salon, a virtual community dedicated to supporting mothers in their artistic practice. Elana’s debut collection of poetr...
Special Episode: Writing Motherhood and Sex
Writer Mother Monster - September 09, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour(May 26) This is a special episode on writing motherhood and sex with Tracey Livesay, Cat Sebastian, and Julie Tieu. Tracey Livesay’s latest release, Like Lovers Do, was named one of the 100 Best Fiction Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews and one of the Top 10 Romances of 2020 by Entertainment Week...
Special Episode: Poets Writing Motherhood
Writer Mother Monster - September 09, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour(May 5) This is a special episode on poets writing motherhood with Emily Pérez and Nancy Reddy, co-editors of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (UGA, 2022). bell hooks said: “No woman has ever written enough.” This truth demands that we make space for the essential writing of mothers, ...
Writer Mother Monster: Lian Dolan
Writer Mother Monster - April 22, 2022 19:00 - 56 minutes(April 21) Lian Dolan is a writer and podcaster. She is the author of three best-selling novels, The Sweeney Sisters, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife. Her latest book, Lost and Found in Paris, was published in April 2022 and is a Southern California Indie Bestseller. Lian has writ...
Writer Mother Monster: Chaya Bhuvaneswar
Writer Mother Monster - April 21, 2022 19:00 - 57 minutes(April 14) Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, writer and PEN American award finalist for her debut collection WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES, which was also selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and Best Short Story Collection. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, S...
Writer Mother Monster: Mireya Vela
Writer Mother Monster - April 20, 2022 20:00 - 1 hourMireya S. Vela is a Mexican-American creative nonfiction writer, storyteller, and artist. Vestiges of Courage is her work of collected essays. In her work, Mireya addresses the needs of immigrant Mexican families and the disparities they face every day. She tackles issues of inequity and how ing...
Writer Mother Monster: Special Episode, Writing, Motherhood & Gender Identity
Writer Mother Monster - April 01, 2022 13:00 - 1 hourThis is a special episode on Writing, Mothering & Gender Identity with Stephanie Burt, Jennifer Chen, and Toni McLellan. We talked about writing and mothering nonbinary and trans children, and writing and mothering as trans and nonbinary mothers. It’s no accident that we held this conversation o...
Writer Mother Monster: Jessica Pierce
Writer Mother Monster - March 13, 2022 15:00 - 56 minutesPoet Jessica Pierce is the author of Consider the Body, Winged, and has been published in numerous magazines, including Nimrod International Journal selected her as a finalist for the 2020 and 2021 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She was also a finalist in poetry prizes from CALYX Journal, the Ne...
Writer Mother Monster: Hilda Raz
Writer Mother Monster - February 18, 2022 17:00 - 1 hourNote: Due to technical difficulties, there may be moments of awkwardness in this interview. Apologies! (February 17) Hilda Raz has been a director, award judge, and contributor in this country’s most prestigious poetry journals and contests. She has published 14 books as a poet, nonfiction writ...
Writer Mother Monster: Alena Dillon
Writer Mother Monster - February 18, 2022 17:00 - 56 minutes(February 10) Alena Dillon is the author of Mercy House, a Library Journal Best Book of 2020, which has been optioned as a television series produced by Amy Schumer, The Happiest Girl in the World, a Good Morning America pick, My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early parentin...
Writer Mother Monster: Crystal Maldonado
Writer Mother Monster - December 17, 2021 17:00 - 58 minutesCrystal Maldonado is a young adult author with a lot of feelings. Her debut novel, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega, was a Cosmopolitan Best New Book and a POPSUGAR Best New YA Novel. Her next novel, No Filter and Other Lies, explores teenage life in the social media age—and the lies we tell to ourselve...
Writer Mother Monster: Sara Hosey
Writer Mother Monster - December 07, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour(November 11) Sara Hosey is the author of Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Media Depictions of Wives and Mothers, which looks at representations of the domestic in popular culture, as well as 2 young adult novels: Iphigenia Murphy and Imagining Elsewhere. She has a Ph.D. in American Literature and is ...
Writer Mother Monster: Anna V. Q. Ross
Writer Mother Monster - December 07, 2021 17:00 - 59 minutesAnna V. Q. Ross’s most recent book—Flutter, Kick—won the 2020 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award and is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2022. She is the author of 3 previous poetry collections: Figuring, If a Storm, and Hawk Weather and her work has received fellowships from organizations including...
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