Latest Writer mother Podcast Episodes
Writer Mother Monster: Sheba Karim
Writer Mother Monster - November 10, 2021 01:00 - 46 minutes(November 4) Sheba Karim is the author of the YA novels Skunk Girl, That Thing We Call a Heart, which made several Best Book lists including Bank Street and Kirkus, and Mariam Sharma Hits the Road, which was named a NPR Best Book of the Year, and The Marvelous Mirza Girls (May 2021). Her fiction...
Writer Mother Monster: Kristie Robin Johnson
Writer Mother Monster - October 31, 2021 15:00 - 57 minutesNote: Apologies for the technical difficulties at the start--our intro song refused to play! Kristie Robin Johnson is an educator, essayist, and poet from Augusta, GA. She is the current Chair of the Department of Humanities at Georgia Military College’s Augusta campus where she is an Assistan...
Writer Mother Monster: Ramona Ausubel
Writer Mother Monster - October 29, 2021 21:00 - 1 hourRamona Ausubel is the author of two novels and two story collections. Her most recent book, Awayland, was a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection, a Finalist for the California Book Award, Colorado Book Award and long-listed for the Story Prize. She is also the author of Sons and Daughters of...
Writer Mother Monster: Tara Laskowski
Writer Mother Monster - October 29, 2021 20:00 - 57 minutesTara Laskowski’s debut suspense novel One Night Gone won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award, and her second novel, The Mother Next Door, was published in October 2021. She is also the author of two short story collections and was the longtime editor of the online flash ficti...
Writer Mother Monster: Diksha Basu
Writer Mother Monster - October 29, 2021 19:00 - 56 minutesDiksha Basu is an actor and the author of the novels Destination Wedding and The Windfall, which is under adaptation for a television series by Shonali Bose. ELLE magazine said The Windfall broke stereotypes of exoticism surrounding India while The Wire called it a “shrewd and unstintingly funny...
Writer Mother Monster: Kelly Sue DeConnick
Writer Mother Monster - September 08, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes(September 2, 2021) Kelly Sue DeConnick is the force behind Carol Danvers’ reinvention as Captain Marvel and is the first female writer of an ongoing Avengers title in AVENGERS ASSEMBLE. In 2013, Kelly Sue debuted on the independent scene with the mythological Western PRETTY DEADLY, followed by ...
Writer Mother Monster: Leslie Lehr
Writer Mother Monster - September 02, 2021 13:00 - 59 minutesAuthor of seven books, Leslie Lehr explores the duality of today’s women to navigate a new path between sexy and sacred. Salma Hayek is developing Leslie’s critically acclaimed new memoir, A Boob’s Life, into a comedy series for HBO Max. Writer Mother Monster is an interactive conversation seri...
Writer Mother Monster: Dorothy Allison
Writer Mother Monster - August 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 hourContent warning: Childhood sexual abuse (August 5, 2021) Dorothy Allison’s novel Bastard Out of Carolina was a finalist for the National Book Award, became an award-winning movie, and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She was an award-winning editor for numerous early femini...
Writer Mother Monster: Margaret Adams
Writer Mother Monster - July 30, 2021 01:00 - 1 hour(July 22, 2021) Margaret Adams writes short fiction, creative nonfiction, and essays. She was a Best American Essays 2019 Notable, the winner of the Blue Mesa Review 2018 Nonfiction Contest, and the winner of the Pacifica Literary Review 2017 Fiction Contest, and she’s a fiction editor for JMWW....
Writer Mother Monster: Rachel Yoder
Writer Mother Monster - July 29, 2021 01:00 - 58 minutes(July 8, 2021) Rachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch (Doubleday), which has been optioned for film with Amy Adams set to star. She is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona, and is a founding editor of draft: the journal of pr...
Writer Mother Monster, Special Episode: Writing Motherhood & Mental Health
Writer Mother Monster - July 08, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour(July 1, 2021) With Alicia Elliott, author of the thought-provoking essay collection A Mind Spread Out on the Ground; Liz Harmer, author of a memoir about wrestling with bipolar disorder, her hospitalization as a teenager, and postpartum depression; and Meg Leonard, a poet with a new collection,...
Writer Mother Monster: Kate Baer
Writer Mother Monster - July 07, 2021 14:00 - 59 minutes(June 10, 2021) Kate Baer is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and poet based on the East Coast. She has been featured in publications such as Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue.com, Entertainment Weekly, & Literary Hub. Her first book, What Kind Of Woman, is out now with HarperCollins. “In these confi...
Writer Mother Monster: Kendra DeColo
Writer Mother Monster - June 04, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour(June 3, 2021) Kendra DeColo is the author of three poetry collections; most recently I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers From the World (BOA Editions, 2021). She has received awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and others, and her poems and essays have appeared in Ame...
Writer Mother Monster: Tananarive Due
Writer Mother Monster - May 29, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour(May 27, 2021) Tananarive Due teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at UCLA and is an executive producer on Shudder’s documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. A leading voice in black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award...
Writer Mother Monster: Lan Samantha Chang
Writer Mother Monster - May 15, 2021 15:00 - 1 hourLan Samantha Chang's new novel, The Family Chao, will be published by W.W. Norton in February, 2022. She is the author of two previous novels, All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and Inheritance, and a story collection, Hunger. Sam is the director of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and li...
Writer Mother Monster: Lan Samantha Chang, “A lot of my younger students write stories about middle-aged characters who are angsty and bored, and I’m thinking, ‘No, that’s not what it’s been like for me.’ It’s been one crazy thing after another!”
Writer Mother Monster - May 15, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour(May 13, 2021) Lan Samantha Chang, Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, is the author of Hunger; Inheritance; All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost; and The Family Chao (W.W. Norton, 2022). She has a 13-year-old daughter and describes writer-motherhood in 3 words as “Need more time.” In this epis...
Writer Mother Monster: Deesha Philyaw
Writer Mother Monster - May 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour(May 6, 2021) Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in fiction and won The Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black c...
Writer Mother Monster: Sadie Hoagland, “I write dark things. Once I had children, I became more careful; if I’m gonna engage with darkness, I’d better do it for a good reason and with a sense of responsibility.”
Writer Mother Monster - May 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour(April 29, 2021) Sadie Hoagland is the author of Strange Children and American Grief in Four Stages and has two children, ages 6 and 2. She describes writer motherhood as “exhausting, hilarious, real.” In this episode, Sadie talks about multigenerational motherhood, why ambivalence is underrated...
Writer Mother Monster: Sadie Hoagland
Writer Mother Monster - May 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour(April 29, 2021) Sadie Hoagland is the author of Strange Children and American Grief in Four Stages, which earned a starred review from Kirkus Reviews. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the former editor of Quarterly West. Her work has been ...
Writer Mother Monster: Deesha Philyaw, “We think the worst thing is for our kids to feel unloved if we’re not there, but the worst is if we’re not there for ourselves; if we don’t show up for what we’re passionate about, to have unrealized dreams as a mot
Writer Mother Monster - May 07, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour(May 6, 2021) Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in fiction and won The Story Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her children are 17 and 22, and she describes writer-motherhood as “intense, c...
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."
Writer Mother Monster - April 25, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour(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, ...
Writer Mother Monster: Stephanie Burt
Writer Mother Monster - April 25, 2021 15:00 - 1 hourStephanie 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 Ra...
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."
Writer Mother Monster - April 24, 2021 15:00 - 59 minutes“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...
Writer Mother Monster: Kim McLarin
Writer Mother Monster - April 24, 2021 15:00 - 59 minutesKim 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...
Writer Mother Monster: Riché Barnes
Writer Mother Monster - April 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour(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 Red...
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.”
Writer Mother Monster - April 17, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour(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 i...
Writer Mother Monster: Special Episode, Writing Motherhood & Miscarriage with Shannon Gibney & Kao Kalia Yang
Writer Mother Monster - April 03, 2021 21:00 - 1 hourCW: 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, tal...
Writer Mother Monster: Jennifer Chen, "My greatest pieces have come out of places of vulnerability and shame and fear.”
Writer Mother Monster - March 27, 2021 14:00 - 1 hourCW: 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 ...
Writer Mother Monster: Jennifer Chen
Writer Mother Monster - March 27, 2021 14:00 - 1 hourJennifer 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 Univer...
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.”
Writer Mother Monster - March 12, 2021 02:00 - 1 hour(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...
Related Writer mother Topics