Before having my son, I was terrified that somehow crossing the threshold from individual into the territory of mother would somehow strip me of my identity as writer. I think this came from reading an article in The Atlantic years ago that said the only way you could be a mother and a writer is to only have one child. This scared me because I knew I probably wanted more than one. Writing has always been so important to me that I didn’t want to let it go. It is my creative ou

Yes, I used all caps there. Why? Because I have some great big book news that is a long time coming. Drum roll please . . . My first novel, The Way You Sleep, will be published by She Writes Press on April 14, 2020. Mark your calendars! Why am I so so so excited? Because I've wanted to publish books since I was about, oh, five or six years old. And I can't wait to actually hold the book in my hands. What is the novel about? In the effort to test his own resilience, twenty-fiv