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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Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Lisa Marie Oliver, Birthroot, Glass Lyre Press, December 2024, poetry (chapbook) The poems…
Review by Melanie McGehee In her latest book, Otherwise, I’m Fine, Barbara Presnell, long-time educator and writer, finally tells…
Review by Christy Lee Barnes In Jennifer Martelli’s Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree, an atheist’s prayers conjure up…
Review by Lara Lillibridge A good poem is a fleeting emotion captured and held on a page, then released…
Review by Celia Jeffries “Throughout my journey of motherhood, there have been moments when I wanted to check out.…
Review by Robbi Nester A first-generation child of immigrants must construct a hyphenated identity, intersection between two different worlds.…
Review by Jeanne Yu Nancy Miller Gomez’s dazzling debut poetry collection, Inconsolable Objects exposes the unsuspecting inconsolable objects we…
Review by Jane Ward Jen Michalski, award-winning author of 2021’s You’ll Be Fine, returns in June with All…
Review by Emily Hall Miranda Schmidt’s debut novel Leafskin is slippery. Part prose, part poetry, the novel begins…
Review by Teresa Tumminello Brader Lisa C. Taylor’s novel The Shape of What Remains (Between the Lines Publishing/Liminal Press,…
MER Bookshelf – April 2025 Curated by Melissa Joplin Highley Alice B Fogel, Falsework, Bee Monk Press, August…
Review by Sharon Tracey In Mycocosmic, Lesley Wheeler’s sixth poetry collection, the poet uses the metaphor of fungi to…
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.
If you are interested in reviewing books for us, please email us at [email protected]