My essay, “Mothers Who Eat the Good Strawberries” about mothering, pleasure, and sacrifice, is now published on Women* Who Write the Balkans.

“The birch tree, the washing lines, and the way the pavements crackled with meltwater from the rooftops one day and froze over the next. This seemed to illustrate, the more I observed, that birth was not one event but a painful series of coming in and out of life.” Read more…