Writer, co-editor @MuthaMagazine, author of CRYBABY (@BrownPaperPress). Pronouns: she/her. Adjectives: anxious/tired.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2011
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It’s pub day for CRYBABY: INFERTILITY, ILLNESS, AND OTHER THINGS THAT WERE NOT THE END OF THE WORLD. If you read just one memoir this year about wanting a baby and getting cancer instead, I recommend this one! brownpaperpress.com/crybaby
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"She didn’t mean to touch the fertility dolls; nine months later she gave birth." —Michelle Valenti on folklore and fertility muthamagazine.com/2026/03/fe…
"Am I still going to be a mother after this?" Stefanie DeMaria Febus nails the terror and the love that comes with parenting through a crisis muthamagazine.com/2026/03/co…
This gorgeous essay by Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka boldly answers the question "How can you bring a child into a world like this one?" Here's how. Here's why. muthamagazine.com/2026/03/to…
"For less than 40 hours Franziska Braun was Hitler’s mother-in-law.... Hitler was never told that the Brauns were 1/32 Jewish." —excerpt from Terese Svoboda's Hitler and My Mother-in-Law in @muthamagazine muthamagazine.com/2026/03/mo…
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"When Joey said something about the Poop Monster's big head coming out of the bowl, his brother said, 'I think it’s because I showed him the Skibidi Toilet video.'" —Cheryl Klein @CherylEKleinLA muthamagazine.com/2026/03/th…
Fear and potty training, today in @MuthaMagazine muthamagazine.com/2026/03/th…
This essay by Ellenora Cage is an ode to stubbornness and creativity and flexibility. Moms contain multitudes.
"My small A cups just didn’t seem like they were going to be the big producers, and I couldn’t shame my body anymore. It had suffered enough through years of infertility and a barrage of treatments." —Ellenora Cage on inducing lactation muthamagazine.com/2026/02/mi…
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Leaving this here, behold the first ever print issue of TBQ, a sampler best of issue available next week at #AWP26, five bucks, full color, glossy and it comes with a poem in the shape of beating Henry Kissinger to death! Guaranteed to be collectible after the cease and desist
Brittany Miles has been writing about her daughter's schizophrenia for @MuthaMagazine; it's big stuff, but there are also the little things—like intense spacial disorganization—that aren't really little at all. muthamagazine.com/2026/02/__…
"On Tuesdays we each exhale a breath we didn’t know we were holding." —Michelle Fitzgerald in @MuthaMagazine muthamagazine.com/2025/12/so…
Check out Megan Hanlon's @sugarpigblog interview with Kate Rope @katerope in @MuthaMagazine and feel more hopeful about parenting (especially if you're parenting a girl, but really, any kid!). muthamagazine.com/2025/12/be…
Writing about what haunts me. But, like, not in a bad way?
"'I think I just performed some adoptive parent fragility,' I confessed to my spouse." —Cheryl Klein @cherylekleinla navigates online anti-adoption communities muthamagazine.com/2025/11/co…
This essay by Brittany Miles in @MuthaMagazine is terrifying and beautiful, relatable and unique muthamagazine.com/2025/11/fe…
Here's to being ridiculous! Lovely essay by Jocelyn Jane Cox in @MuthaMagazine muthamagazine.com/2025/10/fi…
An excellent memoir about being a mother and having one, and facing cancer risk. Check out the book excerpt linked below and also my Q&A with the author!
"I wanted to stomp my feet and shout, This isn’t fair! But at the same time, I wanted to prove to them that I was an upstanding member of society, a good mother, someone who deserved to keep living." —Tiffany Graham Charkosky muthamagazine.com/2025/10/fa…
Nothing like having kids to make you reckon with your own child self. This by Ashley Hudson: muthamagazine.com/2025/10/a-…
"My child remains afraid of fire. But the fire seems like the most understandable part of this situation. What scares adults is the absence of any care or accountability from the government." —Akina Cox on the #EatonFire in @MuthaMagazine muthamagazine.com/2025/10/ea…
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"I’ve never liked the idea of a gratitude journal, because it prompts the question 'To whom?' and then I have to think about a god who 'has a plan' that includes cancer, war, and famine." Instead, Cheryl Klein @cherylekleinla looks to her toddler for joy. muthamagazine.com/2025/09/fr…
How do you summon genuine joy when you’re prone to twitchy magical thinking and allergic to toxic positivity? When the world is [gestures vaguely to surroundings]? I gave it my best shot in today’s @MuthaMagazine: muthamagazine.com/2025/09/fr…