F113. CANCELLED: Extreme Motherhood: Writing Motherhood When Circumstances Are Out of the Ordinary
Status: Not Accepted
Friday, March 6, 2020
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Participants
Alice Eve Cohen is a playwright, solo theatre artist, and author. Her honors include O magazine 25 Best Books of Summer, Elle Literary Grand Prix for What I Thought I Knew, and the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for In the Cervix of Others. She has a BA from Princeton and an MFA from the New School, where she teaches creative writing and playwriting.
Marie Myung-Ok Lee is the author of forthcoming novels The Evening Hero and Finding My Voice (YA). Her fiction has appeared Kenyon Review, FiveChapters, TriQuarterly, Witness, Joyland, and Guernica. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and New York Times. She teaches fiction at Columbia.
Doreen Oliver is a writer and performer. Her essays on autism, race, and the chaos and contradictions of parenting have appeared in several national publications, and her award-winning one-woman show, Everything Is Fine until It's Not, premiered Off-Broadway. She is working on a related memoir.
Julie Metz is the author of The New York Times bestselling memoir Perfection. She has written for The New York Times, Salon, Dame, Slice, Glamour, Huffington Post, and more. Julie has been a podcast guest on Dear Sugar Radio hosted by Cheryl Strayed and Women of the Hour hosted by Lena Dunham.