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- Aga Maksimowska: Learning to Sit in the Chaos · 31 minSam Field and Amanda Fields talk with Aga Maksimowska, author of Becalming, about drawing on the complexities of family life in fiction and revisiting characters through the lens…
- Suzi Q. Smith: Writing Your Own Gospel · 27 minSam Field and Tiffanie Drayton chat with Suzi Q. Smith, author of A Gospel of Bones, about finding beauty in difficult experiences, creating your own gospel, and the revealing…
- Mac Crane: Embracing the Chaos of Perversion We All Have · 28 minSam Field and Tiffanie Drayton chat with Mac Crane, author of Perverts, about challenging the definition of perversion, finding connection, and exploring how parenthood affects…
- Leila Farjami: Healing the Mother Wound · 28 minAmanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Leila Farjami, author of Daughter of Salt, about breaking the chain of familial obligations and healing from being a child of…
- Chital Mehta: Stretching Cultural Boundaries in Motherhood · 29 minAmanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Chital Mehta, author of Have You Seen Romit?, about raising children across cultures, stretching marital boundaries, and the…
- Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and Jenna Morton-Aiken: Parenting as Graduate Students · 34 minAmanda Fields and Caroline Grant chat with Jackie Hoermann-Elliott and Jenna Morton-Aiken, co-editors of the anthology Parenting While PhDing, about raising children in a…
- Shasta Grant: Absent Mothers & Teenaged Girls · 30 minAmanda Fields and Tiffanie Drayton chat with Shasta Grant, author of When We Were Feral, about absent mothers, growing up in the ’90s, and raising a teenage son in today’s…
- Rebecca Morrison: Disordered Eating and Representing Iranian Culture · 26 minTiffanie Drayton and Amanda Fields chat with Rebecca Morrison, author of The Blue Dress, about adapting her memoir into a young adult novel, opening dialogue for teens to talk…
- Kerry Docherty: Faherty Brand’s Cofounder on Being Selfish · 27 minHolly Rizzuto Palker and Sam Field chat with Kerry Docherty, author of Selfish, about finding quiet moments of creativity, ambition, and why putting yourself first isn’t always…
- Sona Movsesian: The World's Worst Mom · 33 minHolly Rizzuto Palker and Amanda Fields chat with Sona Movsesian, author of The World’s Worst Mom, about parenting twins, normalizing vulnerability and finding her voice as a…
- Andrea Louie: Toy Len Goon & the Model Minority Myth · 31 minAmanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Andrea Louie, author of Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon’s Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority, about her…
- Lisa Roe: Sisters, Survival, and Second Acts in Motherhood · 29 minHolly Rizzuto Palker and Sam Field chat with Lisa Roe, author of Big & Lily, about sisterhood, second acts, and the ways women learn to rewrite the stories they’ve been living. A…
- Martheaus Perkins: Lyrical Reckoning & the American Dream · 33 minAmanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Martheaus Perkins, author of The Grace of Black Mothers, about Black motherhood, poetic form, and the complicated inheritance of…
- Heather Sweeney: Life After a Military Marriage · 32 minAmanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Heather Sweeney, author of Camouflage: How I Emerged From the Shadows of a Military Marriage, about identity, divorce, and…
- Whitney French: Love, War, Memory, and Black Futurism · 30 minAmanda Fields and Tiffanie Drayton chat with Whitney French, author of Syncopation: A Novel in Verse, about memory, identity, and what it means to reshape yourself in a fractured…
- Lara Ehrlich: Rage Against the Patriarchy · 31 minAmanda and Sam chat with Lara Ehrlich, author of Bind Me Tighter Still, about domesticity and wildness in motherhood, the fierce love for our children, and feeling like we’re…
- Chloe Yelena Miller: Public and Private Grief · 23 minAmanda Fields and Eva Langston chat with Chloe Yelena Miller, author of Perforated, about impossible wishes and material fears in parenting and poetry. In her second full-length…
- Rebecca Lehmann: Resurrecting Anne Boleyn and Going from Poet to Novelist · 25 minEva Langston and Amanda Fields chat with Rebecca Lehmann, author of The Beheading Game, about rewriting Anne Boleyn through the lens of motherhood, the punishment of powerful…
- Chloé Caldwell: Infertility & Queer-ception · 27 minEva Langston and Amanda Fields chat with Chloé Caldwell, author of Trying, about loneliness in infertility, contradictions with IVF in the queer community, and the rawness of…
- Karen Palmer: DIY Witness Protection · 30 minAmanda Fields and Eva Langston chat with Karen Palmer, author of She’s Under Here, about living with an undercurrent of fear and clawing her way out of abuse. In her memoir…
