Kate Hopper’s first book, Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers, has just been released from Viva Editions. Kate teaches online and at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she lives with her family. She blogs at www.motherhoodandwords.com.…
Brad Green, author of: mostly unrequited hope Age of kids: 1, 4, 10 What is lost: No time most of all. There’s also no space. Everything is crowded as a room full of elbows, a hallway of mother-in-laws. Reach out…
Yannick Murphy, author of: Novels: The Call; Signed, Mata Hari; Here They Come; The Sea of Trees Short story collections: Stories in Another Language, In a Bear’s Eye Children’s books: Ahwoooooooo!, Baby Polar, The Cold Water Witch Age of kids:…
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, New York Times bestselling author of At Knit’s End, Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter, Free-Range Knitter, Things I Learned from Knitting, Casts Off, Knitting Rules, All Wound Up, and her blog: Yarn Harlot. Age of…
Court Merrigan, author of Moondog Over the Mekong, forthcoming from Snubnose Press, and Spingetingler Award-nominated “The Cloud Factory.” Stories upcoming in Weird Tales, Big Pulp, Noir Nation, and Border Noir. Age of kids: Ada, 4 and Waylon, 1 What was…
Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You, Girls in Trouble, forthcoming Is It Tomorrow Age of kid: 15 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Before I…
Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, Private Life, Horse Heaven, Moo, 10 Days in the Hills, A Thousand Acres, The Man Who Invented the Computer, Good Faith, and others Age of kids: 33,…
Mike Cooper, author of: Clawback Age of kids: 8, 12 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? I didn’t start writing until our daughter was born, and we decided I’d be…
Sara Shepard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars series, The Lying Game series, The Visibles, and Everything We Ever Wanted Age of kid: Kristian, 7 months What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before…
Sophie Littlefield, author of: The Stella Hardesty mystery series (Saint Martin’s Minotaur), The Aftertime series (Harlequin Luna), and young adult fiction (Delacorte). Ages of kids: 16 and 19. What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and…