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This Mama Is Lit!
Literary Mama's podcast featuring interviews with mama writers.
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Episodes
This Mama Is Lit!Kate Feiffer: A Story Within A Story
To find out more about Kate and her work, visit her website at https://www.katefeiffer.com You can also follow her on Facebook @Kate FeifferInstagram…
This Mama Is Lit!Ona Gritz: Investigating Family Secrets
For more information about Ona, please go to her author website at https://www.onagritz.com/ More details regarding her awards is given here…
This Mama Is Lit!Carley Moore: Protest and Identity
To find out more about Carley, please visit her website: https://www.carleymoore.com/ Heart Less, her new collection of poetry is available from…
This Mama Is Lit!Catherine Newman: On The Sandwich Generation
For further information on Catherine and her work, please visit https://www.catherinenewmanwriter.com/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss…
This Mama Is Lit!Kelly Sundberg: Rebuilding After Abuse
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This Mama Is Lit!Nicole Haroutunian: Feminism and Friendship
Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker talk with Nicole Haroutunian, author of Choose This Now, about feminism, friendship, art, and their impact on parenting…
This Mama Is Lit!Grace Loh Prasad: Heritage and Home
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This Mama Is Lit!Judith Lindbergh: On Women Warriors
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This Mama Is Lit!Shannon Sanders: On Being Equipped to Mother Different Children
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This Mama Is Lit!Amy Shearn: The Sexy Episode
Amanda Fields and Brianna Avenia-Tapper talk with long-time LM friend Amy Shearn about how kids change over the years, dating during motherhood, life after…
This Mama Is Lit!Emily Raboteau: Mothering in Shared Spaces
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This Mama Is Lit!Jane Friedman: On the Desire to Not Have Children
Jane Friedman chats with Holly Rizzuto Palker and Amanda Fields about her publishing guru status, The Business of Being a Writer, and her choice not to have…
This Mama Is Lit!Jessica Strawser: Starting Over in Every Way Possible
Jessica Strawser chats with Holly Rizzuto Palker and Brianna Avenia-Tapper about her newest book, The Last Caretaker. She talks about how her children inspire…
This Mama Is Lit!Erika Hayasaki: Fourth wall journalism
Amanda Fields and Brianna Avenia-Tapper talk with Erika Hayasaki: journalist, professor, and author of SOMEWHERE SISTERS: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and…
This Mama Is Lit!Tiffanie Drayton: Demon slayer, here we come
Tiffanie Drayton sits in the Literary Mama guest chair with Amanda Fields, Holly Rizzuto Palker, and Brianna Avenia-Tapper to discuss her memoir Black American…
This Mama Is Lit!Estelle Erasmus: New Ways of Being Me
Holly Rizzuto Palker and Brianna Avenia-Tapper chat with author, Estelle Erasmus, about her book Writing That Gets Noticed, about being a midlife mom, and…
This Mama Is Lit!Elizabeth Farfán-Santos: Remembering resiliency
Amanda Fields, Holly Rizzuto Palker, and Brianna Avenia-Tapper talk with Elizabeth Farfán-Santos, a Chicana author and medical anthropologist. Her newest book…
This Mama Is Lit!Kelly McMasters: Pretend culture
Amanda Fields and Brianna Avenia-Tapper sit down with author Kelly McMasters to discuss divorce, honesty, and moms in the dating world. Kelly is the author of…
This Mama Is Lit!Margo Steines: Living as a vessel of care
Brianna Avenia-Tapper and Amanda Fields talk with Margo Steines: author, mother, freelance writer, and writing coach. Margo’s memoir, Brutalities: A Love…
This Mama Is Lit!Corie Adjmi: On marrying and mothering young
Literary Mama talks to best-selling author Corie Adjmi about her novel The Marriage Box, navigating her Jewish Syrian heritage and community, and mothering…
This Mama Is Lit!Yael Goldstein-Love: What even is normal?
The Literary Mama crew talks to author and researcher Yael Goldstein-Love about the anxiety and guilt of motherhood, the postpartum experience, and the idea of…
This Mama Is Lit!Alyssa Ages: Betrayal of the body
Holly Rizzuto Palker and Brianna Avenia-Tapper talk with Alyssa Ages. Ages is a mom, strongman competitor, endurance athlete, and freelance writer. Her debut…
This Mama Is Lit!Jacinda Townsend: The mom from hideous kinky
Amanda Fields, Brianna Avenia-Tapper, and Holly Rizzuto Palker talk with Jacinda Townsend. Jacinda is a novelist, creative writing professor, and long-time…
This Mama Is Lit!Did I marry the wrong person? Talking infertility with Susan Shapiro
Holly Rizzuto Palker, Brianna Avenia-Tapper, and Amanda Fields talk with Susan Shapiro, an award-winning writer and professor. Susan is the bestselling…