Writer Mother Monster
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 pursuits. Hosted by Lara Ehrlich, author of ANIMAL WIFE (Red Hen Press, 2020).
Episodes
72 episodes
Writer Mother Monster: Claire Oshetsky
Claire Oshetsky the author of the novel Chouette, which was longlisted for the 2022 Pen/Faulkner award for fiction and won the 2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Chouette was also named to the Honor List for...
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Season 1
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Episode 72
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57:32
Writer Mother Monster: Mary Collins, Live at Stonington Free Library
This episode is filmed live at the Stonington Free Library. Mary Collins is the author of articles, essays, and three books, including her most recent, A Play Book: Creating Writers, Creating Citizens. She is a professor of nonfict...
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Season 1
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Episode 71
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58:02
Writer Mother Monster: Megan Stielstra
Megan Stielstra is the author of three collections: Everyone Remain Calm, Once I Was Cool, and The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, the Nonfiction Book of the Year from the Chicago Review of Books. Her work appears in the Best American Essays, New ...
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Season 1
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Episode 70
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59:48
Writer Mother Monster: Fox North
Fox North (call them Fox!) is a critically acclaimed novelist for teenagers and adults. Fox, a graduate of the University of Florida’s MFA program in poetry, was a finalist in 2018 with the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the recipient of a Creati...
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Season 1
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Episode 69
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56:01
In-Person Episode: Janet Garcia-Hallett
Welcome to a special live episode of Writer Mother Monster, a community and conversation series devoted to dismantling the myth of having it all and offering writer-moms solidarity, support, and advice. The show is typically streamed live on Fa...
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Season 1
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Episode 68
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48:01
Writer Mother Monster: Special Episode, Postpartum Psychosis
A panel discussion with Chaya Bhuvaneswar, a psychiatrist and author of White Dancing Elephants, who has treated postpartum patients in-hospital, including at a forensic psych ward for women ...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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1:35:08
Writer Mother Monster: Elizabeth Nunez
Elizabeth Nunez emigrated from Trinidad to the US at age 19. Winner of an American Book Award, an Independent Publishers Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, and a Hurston Wright Legacy Award, she is the author of a memoir and ten novels,...
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Season 1
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Episode 66
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1:02:58
Writer Mother Monster: Samantha Silva
SAMANTHA SILVA is an author, playwright, and screenwriter based in Idaho. She’s sold film projects to Paramount, Universal, and New Line Cinema, and she is the author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol (Flatiron Books, 2017), and Love and Fury: A Nov...
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Season 1
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Episode 65
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56:45
Writer Mother Monster: Rebecca Makkai
(February 14, 2023) Rebecca Makkai’s last novel, THE GREAT BELIEVERS, was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; it was the winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal, the Stonewall Book Award, the Clark Prize, and the LA Tim...
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Season 1
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Episode 64
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1:01:08
Writer Mother Monster: Artress Bethany White
Artress Bethany White, associate professor of English at East Stroudsburg University, is a poet, essayist, and literary critic. She is the recipient of the Trio Award for her poetry collection My Afmerica: poems and the essay collection, Surviv...
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Season 1
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Episode 63
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57:57
Writer Mother Monster: Lisa Czarina Michaud
Lisa Czarina Michaud is an American novelist of Italian-Mexican origins whose work is inspired by her life experiences. She attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington before stumbling through adulthood in Los Angeles. In 2009, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 62
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59:40
Writer Mother Monster: Caroline Hagood
(January 10, 2023) Caroline Hagood is an Assistant Professor of Literature, Writing and Publishing and Director of Undergraduate Writing at St. Francis College in Brooklyn. She is the author of the poetry books, Lunatic Speaks and Making Maxine...
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Season 1
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Episode 61
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1:00:14
Writer Mother Monster: Anna Hogeland
(December 1, 2022) Anna Hogeland is a psychotherapist in private practice, with an MSW from Smith College School of Social Work and an MFA from UC Irvine. She lives in Vermont. Her essays have appeared in LitHub, Gloss, Big Issue, and elsewhere...
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Season 1
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Episode 60
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1:05:43
Writer Mother Monster: Yexandra Diaz
(November 10, 2022) Yexandra “Yex” Diaz is a multi-disciplinary artist whose oeuvre is her sobering expression of what it is to exist in a world of resistance, resilience, and revolution during a new era of renaissance rooted in healing. Chicag...
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Season 1
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Episode 59
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56:21
Writer Mother Monster: Sarah M Jasat
(November 3, 2022) Sarah M Jasat grew up believing her family was very strange but later discovered she was Indian. She lives in Leicester, UK, and writes short fiction about the strangeness of family. She dreams about writing a novel for older...
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Season 1
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Episode 58
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56:17
Writer Mother Monster: Lindsay Lerman
(October 27) Lindsay Lerman is the author of two experimental novels, I’m From Nowhere (2019) and What Are You (2022). She is also a translator. She has a Ph.D. in philosophy and sometimes teaches philosophy and creative writi...
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Season 1
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Episode 57
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58:01
Writer Mother Monster: Toni McLellan
(October 20) Toni McLellan is a marketing writer by day and a round-the-clock phrase-gatherer. For two decades, she’s written for major magazines and brands, including a stint as an outdoor family travel writer. She’s also published essays with...
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Season 1
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Episode 56
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57:17
Writer Mother Monster: Caroline S. Leavitt
(October 13) Caroline Leavitt is the NYT Bestselling author of 13 novels, including With or Without You and Cruel Beautiful World. She is also the cofounder of A Mighty Blaze, a blogger/columnist for Psychology Today,...
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Season 1
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Episode 55
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57:55
Writer Mother Monster: Shin Yu Pai
Shin Yu Pai is a poet, essayist, and visual artist. She is the author of several books of poetry, including VIRGA (Empty Bowl, 2021), and served as the fourth poet laureate of the city of Redmond. In 2014, Shin Yu was nominated for a Stranger G...
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Season 1
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Episode 54
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55:03
Special Episode: Writing Motherhood and Sex
(May 26) This is a special episode on writing motherhood and sex with Tracey Livesay, Cat Sebastian, and Julie Tieu. Tracey Livesay’s latest release, Like Lovers Do, was named one of the 100 Best Fiction Books of 2020 by Kirkus Reviews...
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Season 1
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Episode 53
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1:04:32
Writer Mother Monster: Elana Bell
(May 19) Elana Bell is the author of Mother Country (BOA Editions in 2020), poems about fertility, motherhood, and mental illness. She is also the founder of the
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Season 1
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Episode 52
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58:54
Special Episode: Poets Writing Motherhood
(May 5) This is a special episode on poets writing motherhood with Emily Pérez and Nancy Reddy, co-editors of The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (UGA, 2022). bell hooks said: “No woman has ever written enough.” This t...
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Season 1
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Episode 51
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1:04:53
Writer Mother Monster: Lian Dolan
(April 21) Lian Dolan is a writer and podcaster. She is the author of three best-selling novels, The Sweeney Sisters, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife. Her latest book, Lost and Found in Paris, was publi...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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56:52
Writer Mother Monster: Chaya Bhuvaneswar
(April 14) Chaya Bhuvaneswar is a practicing physician, writer and PEN American award finalist for her debut collection WHITE DANCING ELEPHANTS: STORIES, which was also selected as a Kirkus Reviews Best Debut Fiction and Best Short Story Collec...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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57:38
Writer Mother Monster: Mireya Vela
Mireya S. Vela is a Mexican-American creative nonfiction writer, storyteller, and artist. Vestiges of Courage is her work of collected essays. In her work, Mireya addresses the needs of immigrant Mexican families and the disparities th...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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1:09:55
