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Meet Colleen Couch-Smith
Published October 2007 on Mamaphonic.comColleen Couch-Smith, 30, is an artist, restaurateur, mother of three (Brendan-13, Ian-5, and Ayden-2), and newest member of Memphis Roller Derby’s Legion of Zoom. I was really excited to meet her and thought you might be too...(Read more)
Interview with Muffy Bolding
Published May 2005 on MamaphonicStacey first came across Muffy Bolding on her Live Journal friend’s page a couple of years ago, but it wasn’t until she read her essay in Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts that she realized she needed to know everything about her. She spent weeks stalking Muffy online and really enjoyed getting to know her a little better.
Muffy is married to Gregory, a big-shot software manager/engineer and has three babies: Betsy (18), Annie (14), and Hunter (11). She has been at the writing game, in many forms, for many years. She has written essays, comedy, social satire, political satire, speeches, one-act plays, poetry, PBS doo-dads, Disney Channel stuff, you name it. She publishes a zine, “Withered Debutante," and is the former editor of the online satire zine, “Fresno Lampoon." She was a straight-up newspaper reporter for years, but is now focusing on fiction, essays, and screenplay writing. In 2004, she spent a month in Romania making a film called “Madhouse" that was released theatrically throughout Europe last fall and here on DVD just recently. She has several more on deck at various stages of research, writing, casting, and production—including one that could be classified as old school Disney called “The Little Old Lady from Pasadena."
Muffy was born in Rochester, New York, and is “Part Sicilian, part Philipino, part Irish, part English, part literary snob, and part carny trash." She was raised in Fresno, California—a place which turns up frequently in her work. One day during her Junior year of high school, Muffy was driving to school and just decided that she no longer wished to attend. She drove to the library instead, and just started at one end and worked her way through. ...(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)
