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A Very Precarious Moment: Talking with Karen Russell
I encountered Karen Russell’s work years ago while attending my first fiction workshop. Russell had come to the class as a visiting speaker and by the end of the class my decision was cemented, and my...
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The Myth of the Lazy Mothers
My mother-in-law bought me a sturdy, wooden stool right after I gave birth to Chi. When we came home from the hospital, I found the stool waiting in my room. The seat was small and square, as though it...
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Subverting the Wild West: A Conversation with Anna North
“In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. Like a lot of things, it didn’t happen all at once.” So begins Outlawed, Anna North’s latest novel. Set in an alternative Old West, the novel follows...
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Hopeful Acts: Talking with Krys Malcolm Belc
What struck me first upon reading Krys Malcolm Belc’s debut memoir, The Natural Mother of the Child, is how relatable it is. Here is someone who has been through pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood...
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Paying in Time
The bed wouldn’t stop moving. I would just start to drift off when it would wheeze into action, the bottom lowering down, the top rising. I tried to pretend like it was something nice and relaxing,...
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Malus Domestica
When my great-grandmother, Susan Bishop, was fourteen years old, her parents traded her to a man named Henry C. Hazelwood: a marriage for an apple orchard. He was seventy-four. There are nearly 8,000...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: A Disappointment
Soon after we decided that indeed, we wanted children, I was pregnant. As the child in my belly grew, so did my husband’s joy. How unexpected, to be expecting so soon, and with us both over thirty! I...
View ArticleBirth Stories: Kendra DeColo’s I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World
Birth is gnarly business. Many of the poems in DeColo’s new collection I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World dilate over the scene of birth and the weeks and months that follow, pinning us...
View ArticleWow, Mom!: Mom Genes by Abigail Tucker
I have been told, lately, to take control of many things. Fertility testing companies have ordered me to take control of my reproductive lifespan. Skin care brands have instructed me to take control of...
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All the Tired Horses
In the hazy first weeks after my daughter’s birth, the only song I could think to sing was the simplest. At just two lines long and repeated for almost three minutes, it’s the first song on Bob Dylan’s...
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