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Writer, with Kids: Ben Tanzer

Ben Tanzer is the author of Lost in Space: A Father’s Journey There and Back Again, Orphans, You Can Make Him Like You, Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine, Daddy Cool, Lucky Man, and I Am.

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Writer, with Kids: Curtis Smith

Curtis Smith, author of Beasts and Men; Witness; Species Crown; Truth or Something Like It; Sound and Noise; Bad Monkey Age of kids: one boy, 11 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has

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Writer, with Kids: Amelia Kahaney

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

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Writer, with Kids: Vica Miller

Vica Miller, author of Inga’s Zigzags, a novel; short stories Age of kids: 7.5 and 4.5 I always wrote whenever I could, but having kids made me more disciplined. Before children, I would write late into the night, or take

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Writer, with Kids: Jill Talbot

Jill Talbot, author of: Loaded: Women and Addiction (Seal Press, 2007), co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non)Fictions Come Together (U of Texas, 2008), editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction (Iowa UP, 2012). Age of kid: One

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Writer, with Kids: Levi Weinhagen

Levi Weinhagen, author of dozens of stage productions over the past 15 years Age of kid: 7 What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? Before I became a parent I didn’t

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Writer, with Kids: Dena Rash Guzman

Dena Rash Guzman, author of Life Cycle—Poems Age of kid: 14 year old son What was your writing schedule (ideal and actual) like before kids, and how has that changed? I don’t remember anymore. I think the thing with BC

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Writer, with Kids: Gayle Brandeis

Gayle Brandeis, author of of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, Dictionary Poems, the novels The Book of Dead Birds, which won Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, Self Storage

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Writer, with Kids: Brian Gresko

Brian Gresko is the editor of the anthology When I First Held You: 22 Critically Acclaimed Writers on Fatherhood, forthcoming from Berkley Books/Penguin in spring 2014. He has contributed to The Huffington Post, and written about books and culture for

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Writer, with Fetus: Christopher Higgs

Christopher Higgs, author of: The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney (Sator Press) Assembler of: ONE (Roof Books), with Vanessa Place and Blake Butler   What is your writing schedule like now, and how do you anticipate it will change

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