Lan Tran Sewn From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Lan Tran’s writing has previously been anthologized in A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press, 2009) and Waking Up American (Seal Press, 2005). Lan has also also authored three off-Broadway solo-plays and is the recipient of a PEN/Rosenthal Emerging Voices Fellowship. She currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Ingrid Wendt Leaving the House From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Ingrid Wendt, Leaving the House from Ingrid Wendt on Vimeo. Ingrid Wendt (Eugene, Oregon) and her late husband, writer Ralph Salisbury, once rescued an old house from demolition, moved it across town. and worked on it for many years. Her first book, Moving the House, was published by BOA Editions. Co-editor of In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts (The Feminist Press), Wendt’s fifth and most recent book of poems is Evensong. New poems are forthcoming in POETRY and Cold Mountain Review. www.ingridwendt.com.
Pramila Venkateswaran History of My Suitcase From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Pramila Venkateswaran, poet laureate of Suffolk County, Long Island (2013-15) and co-director of Matwaala: South Asian Diaspora Poetry Festival, is the author of Thirtha (Yuganta Press, 2002) Behind Dark Waters (Plain View Press, 2008), Draw Me Inmost (Stockport Flats, 2009), Trace (Finishing Line Press, 2011), Thirteen Days to Let Go (Aldrich Press, 2015), Slow Ripening (Local Gems, 2016), and The Singer of Alleppey (Shanti Arts, 2018). She has performed the poetry internationally, including at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival and the Festival Internacional De…
Cynthia White Cosmogenesis From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME https://soundcloud.com/themomegg/cynthia-white-reads-cosmogenesis Cynthia White’s poems have appeared in Narrative, New Letters, ZYZZYVA, Poet Lore and Catamaran among others. She’s been a finalist for both New Letter’s Patricia Cleary Miller Prize and Nimrod’s Pablo Neruda Prize and was the winner of the 2018 Julia Darling Memorial Prize for Poetry from Kallisto Gaia Press. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.
Jo Pitkin On “Village: Cinnamon Rice” From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME As a freelance educational writer, I was deeply affected by the 2008 recession. To offset my anxiety about earning a living, I began writing poems about my experiences during the downturn. I asked my mother about her own recollections of the Great Depression, and her childhood memory about enjoying the novelty of cinnamon rice suppers inspired “Village: Cinnamon Rice.” This poem celebrates my grandmother’s resilience and ingenuity and the ways women sustain those they love. Jo Pitkin is the author of a chapbook and four…
On “In the Templo de la Compañía de Jesús in Oaxaca, Mexico” Lisa Lopez Smith From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Writing this essay helped me process my meeting with this young father and his infant daughter. We chatted for quite awhile, and I could have interjected with my opinions and my stories about working in a migrant comedor or walking in the desert or kids in cages. But what about giving dignity to his situation which I would never comprehend entirely? What about just listening to his story? I’m an immigrant too and the reasons we leave our…
Gail Thomas Prayer for a Home Place From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Gail Thomas’ books are Odd Mercy, Waving Back, No Simple Wilderness, and Finding the Bear. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies. Among her awards are the Charlotte Mew Prize from Headmistress Press, the Narrative Poetry Prize from Naugatuck River Review, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book’s “Must Read.” She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony and Ucross, and she is a teacher and editor. www.gailthomaspoet.com.
Danielle Stelluto The Best Gift I Can Give My Kids From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Danielle Stelluto is a womanist, single mother of two, Queer, emerging writer. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and raised in the Bronx. Puerto Rican and Italian, but recognizes, and honors her Taino roots. Earned her AAS Degree in Digital Music Engineering at Hostos College, and more recently, earned her BA Degree in Community Organizing and Women & Gender Studies. Danielle believes in the combination of art and activism, artivism, creating art as a means of empowerment.
Sarah Dickenson Snyder The Sound of a Door From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME https://soundcloud.com/themomegg/the-sound-of-a-door-by-sarah-snyder Sarah Dickenson Snyder has three poetry collections, The Human Contract, Notes from a Nomad (nominated for the Massachusetts Book Awards 2018), and With a Polaroid Camera (2019). She has been a 30/30 poet for Tupelo Press and nominated for Best of Net in 2017. Recent work has appeared in Artemis, The Sewanee Review, and RHINO. https://sarahdickensonsnyder.com.
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter The Interview From Mom Egg Review 18 – HOME Lauren Goodwin Slaughter is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award and author of the poetry collection, a lesson in smallness. Her poems, essays, and short stories appear or are forthcoming in Image, Canary, RHINO, Pleiades, Kenyon Review Online, New South, and 32 Poems, among other places. She is an assistant professor of English at The University of Alabama at Birmingham where she is also Editor-in-Chief of NELLE, a literary journal that publishes writing by women. Find her at www.laurenslaughter.com.