Mom Egg Review publishes reviews of recent books (including chapbooks) of poetry, fiction and creative prose, by mother writers, and of books focused on motherhood or women’s experiences and issues. If you are interested in having your book reviewed, please visit Book Review Request for more info.
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Review by Deborah Leipziger In a time where we need courage, Linda Carney-Goodrich’s poems help make us brave. In her first collection, Dot Girl, she breaks new ground in her searing poems of redemption and transformation. She takes us…
Review by Melanie McGehee In A Measure of Intelligence, Pepper Stetler journeys through history to discover how and why society has come to define and measure intelligence as we do. She purposes to challenge our thinking, ultimately hoping for…
Review by Emily Webber Laura Chow Reeve’s debut story collection, A Small Apocalypse, takes place in the wildness of Florida, following a group of queer friends in mostly interlinked stories as they form bonds with each other, defy expectations,…
Review by Carol Dorf chigger ridge, the winner of The Word Works: Tenth Gate Prize, chosen by Sandra Lim, is Nicole Callihan’s third full-length poetry collection. Callihan has also published three poetry chapbooks and a novella. This coming of…
Review by Jiwon Choi Jen Karetnick’s new poetry collection offers up layers of understanding and wisdom on how to live in our wild and crazy times. The poems that make up Inheritance with a High Error Rate operate…
Review by DeMisty D. Bellinger Jennifer Case’s second essay collection, We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood (Trinity University Press, 2024), offers a raw and tender look at birth and motherhood in present-day America. Case exposes…
Review by Jill Koren Winner of the 2023 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, Allison Blevins’s fifth full-length book, Where Will We Live if The House Burns Down? (Persea Books, 2024) certainly does its work in honoring the “playful love…
Review by Barbara Ellen Sorensen Beyond a simple piece of land separating waters, there is an expanse of field that we all must traverse. This unknown territory encompasses aging and death. Yet we shouldn’t let our demise be at…
Review by Sharon Tracey In Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, art critic and curator Hettie Judah takes the reader on a wide-ranging and engaging “imaginary museum” tour that examines the many permutations of art lived in…
Review by Katie Kalisz Ellen Kombiyil’s second full-length collection, Love as Invasive Species, is dedicated at the beginning of Side A “for daughters” – as though daughters have it hardest, growing up through the inherited invasive love, deciding what…