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The Writer-Mom: How Motherhood Changes and Influences Writing Habits and Subject
Saturday, February 10, 2024
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Four writer-mothers, working in different genres and mothering circumstances, describe how motherhood influences their writing practices and subjects. From returning to the page after becoming a mother to parenthood’s place on the page to how their children’s life stages affect their writing, these four writer-mothers explore how their writing continues to evolve as their roles as mothers evolve and how they manage—or don’t—to make the two work in tandem.
Participants
Laura Leigh Morris is the author of The Stone Catchers (UP Kentucky, forthcoming) and Jaws of Life (West Virginia UP, 2018). She is working on a collection of stories she thinks of as "uncanny domestics." She teaches creative writing at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.
Christine Stewart-NunĚez is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Poet & The Architect, as well as Chrysopoeia: Essays of Language, Love, and Place. She served as South Dakota’s poet laureate from 2019–21, and currently teaches for the University of Manitoba.
Michelle Ross is the author of three story collections: There's So Much They Haven't Told You, Shapeshifting, and They Kept Running. Her work is included in Best Small Fictions, Best Microfiction, the Wigleaf Top 50, and the Norton anthology, Flash Fiction America. She is editor of 100 Word Story.
Shannon Gibney
