Writer Mother Monster

Writer Mother Monster, Special Episode: Writing Motherhood & Mental Health

July 08, 2021 Lara Ehrlich Season 1 Episode 30
Writer Mother Monster
Writer Mother Monster, Special Episode: Writing Motherhood & Mental Health
Show Notes

(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, book of lullabies, that grapples with mental illness and new motherhood.

Writer Mother Monster is a conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice as we make space for creative endeavors.

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