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Writer, with Kids: Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You (debut novel, forthcoming spring 2014, Penguin Press) Age of kids: one son, 2 ¾ years old What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that

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Writer, with Kids: Sarah Gilbert

Sarah Gilbert, author of essays in the Water~Stone Review, Oregon Humanities, Stealing Time Magazine and the upcoming anthology from Creative Nonfiction, “True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly.”   Sliding into Place: on writing and mothering I

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Writer, with Kids: Steve Edwards

Steve Edwards, author of: Breaking into the Backcountry, a memoir about his seven months of solitude in southern Oregon’s Rogue River canyon Age of Kid: He’ll be four this summer   What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like

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Writer, with Kids: Shane Jones Revisited

Shane Jones was kind enough to take part in this series as its first “Writer, with Fetus.” His son has since been born, and Shane’s had a while to navigate the transition to the life of a writer/parent. I’m very

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Writer, with Kids: Kasey Leavitt

Kasey Leavitt, author of: Immaculate, a novel, and several short stories. Am just now sending them out into the world. Ages of kids: 4 and 1 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has

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Writer, with Fetus: Kashana Cauley

Kashana Cauley, author of: online short stories in Tin House and Juked, and soon-in-print stories in Esquire and Redivider. I just completed a novel about a lead singer’s attempt to sink his band’s fourth album and am working on another

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Writer, with Kids: Sunny Bleckinger

Sunny Bleckinger worked for five years as a journalist and editor in the Netherlands. He currently hosts the Soft Show reading series and he’s working on his first novel for the third time. Age of kid: 5   What was

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Writer, with Kids: John Roderick

John Roderick: songwriter and singer/guitarist for The Long Winters. His film and music reviews have appeared in The Stranger and he is a frequent contributor to Seattle Weekly. (You might want to check out his most recent article, “Punk Rock Is

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Writer, with Kids: Rosemary McLaughlin

Rosemary McLaughlin, Playwright: Paterson Falls; A More Opportune Time; The Chair; Standing in the Shadows; Voices Carry, Motherless Child Age of kids: 7 & 8 As I write this, nose pressed up against the deadline, I just finished wrestling the

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Writer, with Kids: Lisa Unger

Lisa Unger is the award-winning New York Times and international bestselling author of 11 titles, most recently Heartbroken. Her novels have sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. and have been translated into 26 different languages. But more importantly,

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