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An Interview with Jennifer Niesslein and Stephanie Wilkinson
Published 2006 on LiteraryMama.comJennifer Niesslein and Stephanie Wilkinson founded Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers in 1999. The two former journalists were both new mothers who yearned for something more than the standard advice, how-tos, and product placement found in mainstream parenting magazines. After a year of planning, the duo launched a quarterly literary magazine for mothers with personal essays, features, fiction, reviews, editorials, and cartoons. Today, the magazine has a circulation of over 30,000 and has won several Independent Press awards...(Read more)
An Interview with Bee Lavender
Published 2005 on LiteraryMama.comBee Lavender, author of the memoir Lessons in Taxidermy: A Compendium of Safety and Danger, is the publisher of Hip Mama and co-editor of the anthologies Breeder: Real-Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers and Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts. She lives in Cambridge, England with her fifteen year-old daughter, eight-year old son, and her husband Byron, a research scientist. In an interview with Stacey Greenberg, Lavender discusses the evolution of her writing, teen motherhood, and how being a parent influences her activism...(Read more)
Participant Observation
Published 2004 on LiteraryMama.comI get most inspired when I am being held down on a bed by my nipples with no pen in sight. Pardon the pun, but nursing really gets my juices flowing. I often lay in the dark with baby Jiro at my breast, ideas spinning, and the computer -- relegated to a "time-out" -- tempting me from the corner. If I get a really good idea, I try to repeat it in my head over and over and over again in the hopes that I can remember it long enough to write it down. As I switch sides nursing, I think, What would Satchel do all day if left to his own devices . . . What would Satchel do all day if left to his own devices . . . I'm in a constant state of production -- formulating ideas, writing them down, typing them up, putting them together in my zine, and looking for other places to publish them...(Read more)
Setting the Stage: A Review of Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts
Published in 2005 on LiteraryMama.comAlthough I had always considered myself a creative person, it was motherhood that gave me focus and helped me to find my voice. After emerging from the haze that is early motherhood--sleepless nights, dirty diapers, and the like--I have found myself increasingly interested in the creative process, and specifically how busy mamas like myself find the time to do what they do. Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts provides an answer to this question and more...(Read more)
