Wendy C. Ortiz, author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, July 2014) and Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, late 2014) Age of kid: 3.5 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that…
Wendy C. Ortiz, author of Excavation: A Memoir (Future Tense Books, July 2014) and Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, late 2014) Age of kid: 3.5 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that…
Mira Ptacin is a New York Times bestselling ghostwriter. Founder and director of Freerange Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Slice Magazine, New York Magazine, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The National Book Foundation, The Morning News, The Rumpus, Creative Nonfiction…
Nelly Reifler, author of See Through (stories, 2003) and Elect H. Mouse State Judge (novel, 2013) Age of kid: Beckett, 2. What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? I’ve always been…
Aimee Phan, author of We Should Never Meet and The Reeducation of Cherry Truong Many of our friends and family believe that children of writers are blessed. They will grow up surrounded by books. They will love to read. They…
Tom Williams, author of The Mimic’s Own Voice, Don’t Start Me Talkin’, Four Fathers (co-author), Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales (forthcoming 2015) Age of kids: Finn, 4; Daphne Kit, in utero What was your writing schedule (ideal and…
Amelia Kahaney, author of: The Brokenhearted and The Invisible (to be released in October 2014) Age of kid: 5.5 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? When I try to remember…
Kim Brooks is at work on her first novel. Her short stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, One Story, Five Chapters, The Missouri Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Meridian, and other journals. Her non-fiction appears frequently on Salon. Age of kids:…
Javier Moreno, author of Lo definitivo y lo temporal (2008), Inframundo (2010) and Despegue (coming in 2014) Age of kid: 17 months. What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? My writing…
Devotion and Distraction Orli Van Mourik Almost exactly eleven weeks ago my daughter, Margot, was born howling. The midwife placed her slippery pink body on my chest, still shimmering, and she immediately hoisted her head up to look at me:…
Sean Ferrell, author of Man in the Empty Suit and Numb I found my son destroying a drawing. He’d worked on it for at least half an hour, one of his monster creations with a thousand eyes on a hundred…