Archive for the 'contributor news' Category
New Book by Jennifer Margulis!
January 24th, 2008
Mama, PhD contributor Jennifer Margulis has a new book coming out this spring, cowritten with her husband, James di Properzio: The Baby Bonding Book for Dads: Building a Closer Connection With Your Baby.
“Many new dads have never even held a baby, or they have little or no experience in taking care of babies. [...]
Lovely Lady Lumps
December 15th, 2007Read Elrena Evans’ column, “Lovely Lady Lumps” in the “Nutshell” section of the Winter 2008 issue of Brain, Child magazine. Elrena writes about the new trend in postpartum plastic surgery, with an insight into the issue from Mama, PhD contributor Jessica Smartt Gullion.
New book from Laura Levitt!
December 7th, 2007Temple University professor Laura Levitt’s new book, American Jewish Loss After the Holocaust (New York University Press) is out now; Laura’s Mama, PhD essay, “On Being Phyllis’s Daughter: Thoughts on Academic Intimacy,” is based on a chapter from the book. Here’s a small taste:
On the one hand, my mother adhered to the norms of mothering [...]
New Column
September 14th, 2007Mama, PhD co-editor Elrena Evans debuts her Literary Mama column this week, Me and My House, which offers a look at her experiences mothering — as a Christian, as a feminist, as someone who can never seem to find the perfect pair of jeans. Look for “Me and My House” every month at Literary Mama.
New Fiction by Elrena Evans
August 13th, 2007Mama, PhD co-editor Elrena Evans’ story, “The Journey Home,” has been published by Literary Mama. Here’s an excerpt:
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It was day two of the journey home, and I missed Miriam. On the way to Yerushalayim for the Feast of the Passover our families had walked together, her friendship a welcome comfort on the dry, dusty road. [...]
New Book by Susan O’Doherty
July 18th, 2007Mama, PhD contributor Susan O’Doherty’s new book, Getting Unstuck Without Coming Unglued: A Woman’s Guide to Unblocking Creativity “is
a practical and accessible guidebook to help women overcome creative blocks.” I’m looking forward to reading it (and hoping it has a bit of advice for when it’s the kids’ building blocks impeding my work!) Watch for [...]
New Book by Julia Lisella
July 17th, 2007Mama, PhD contributor Julia Lisella has published a new poetry collection, Terrain, a book “suffused with quiet rhythms: of birth and death, of pain and healing, of turbulence and calm. She maps a wide terrain indeed, and her haunting music touches both the ear and the heart.” Order it online from WordTech editions.
Mama, PhD Contributor on the Radio
July 17th, 2007Leslie Fields will be on the radio this week discussing the hard realities of being pregnant when you don’t want to be, at a difficult time in life—on Focus on the Family’s radio and internet broadcast this week, Wednesday and Thursday (July 18,19). The program is called “Hope in the Midst of [...]
