Episodes 70
Avg. Duration 29m
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Apple Rating 5.0 (13)
Since Oct 2023
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Literary Mama's podcast featuring interviews with mama writers.

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Whitney French: Love, War, Memory, and Black Futurism

Apr 16, 2026 30m

Amanda Fields and Tiffanie Drayton chat with Whitney French, author of Syncopation: A Novel in Verse, about memory, identity, and what it means to reshape yourself in a fractured world.In…

Lara Ehrlich: Rage Against the Patriarchy

Apr 02, 2026 30m

Amanda and Sam chat with Lara Ehrlich, author of Bind Me Tighter Still, about domesticity and wildness in motherhood, the fierce love for our children, and feeling like we’re always falling short.In…

Chloe Yelena Miller: Public and Private Grief

Mar 19, 2026 23m

Amanda Fields and Eva Langston chat with Chloe Yelena Miller, author of Perforated, about impossible wishes and material fears in parenting and poetry.In her second full-length poetry collection,…

Rebecca Lehmann: Resurrecting Anne Boleyn and Going from Poet to Novelist

Mar 05, 2026 25m

Eva Langston and Amanda Fields chat with Rebecca Lehmann, author of The Beheading Game, about rewriting Anne Boleyn through the lens of motherhood, the punishment of powerful women, crafting a queer…

Chloé Caldwell: Infertility & Queer-ception

Feb 19, 2026 27m

Eva Langston and Amanda Fields chat with Chloé Caldwell, author of Trying, about loneliness in infertility, contradictions with IVF in the queer community, and the rawness of writing in the moment.…

Karen Palmer: DIY Witness Protection

Feb 05, 2026 30m

Amanda Fields and Eva Langston chat with Karen Palmer, author of She’s Under Here, about living with an undercurrent of fear and clawing her way out of abuse. In her memoir, Palmer examines why she…

Dr. Robyn Kozlowitz: No One Ever Wins Trauma Poker

Jan 29, 2026 29m

Holly Rizzuto Palker and Amanda Fields chat with Dr. Robyn Kozlowitz, author of Post Traumatic Parenting, about using guilt as a teacher, discovering how stress and trauma affect parenting, and…

Michelle Lerner: Complicated Grief

Jan 15, 2026 26m

Holly Rizzuto Palker and Eva Langston chat with Michelle Lerner, author of Ring, about defining and treating complicated grief, living with irreparable damage, and finding healing in nature. Ring…

Claire Adam: Leaving the Baby Behind

Jan 08, 2026 28m

Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Claire Adam, author of Love Forms, about forced delivery in Venezuela and testing the mother-child bond in fiction. Love Forms, longlisted for the…

Teri Vlassopoulos: Technology, Fertility, and Karaoke

Dec 26, 2025 28m

Amanda Fields and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Teri Vlassopoulos, author of Living Expenses, about technology creep in modern relationships, fertility treatments’ effect on emotional intimacy, and…

Brittany Micka-Foos: Domestic Horror, Discomfort, & Neurodiversity

Dec 18, 2025 28m

Amanda Fields and Eva Langston chat with Brittany Micka-Foos, author of It’s No Fun Anymore, about domestic horror tropes and how a neurodiversity diagnosis offered insight into writing and…

Domenica Ruta: The Ecosystem of Single Mothers

Dec 11, 2025 30m

Amanda and Eva chat with Domenica Ruta, author of All the Mothers, about a new dialectic in motherhood, the specific anxieties of single moms, and the necessity of single mom communities. She also…

Jessie Harrold: Becoming, Not Broken

Dec 04, 2025 28m

Eva Langston and Amanda Fields chat with Jessie Harrold, author of Mothershift, about matrescence - the process of becoming a mother, the four radical transformations, and the seven mother powers.…

Liz Alterman: Humor is My Drug of Choice

Nov 28, 2025 31m

Holly Rizzuto Palker and Eva Langston chat with Liz Alterman, author of Sad Sacked, about the perils and freedoms of unemployment, the dichotomy of working moms, and the need to write the book you…

Jessica Slice: Ableist Systems and Disability Designs

Nov 20, 2025 30m

Amanda Fields and Eva Langston chat with Jessica Slice, author of Unfit Parent, about designing and inventing systems of parenting based on the bodies and minds we live in. Unfit Parent examines the…

Natasha Williams: Love and Schizophrenia

Nov 13, 2025 30m

Eva Langston and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with Natasha Williams, author of The Parts of Him I Kept, about parenting her father through schizophrenia and healing through memoir writing.The Parts of…

Abigail Leonard: For Mothers Across Borders

Nov 06, 2025 29m

Holly Rizzuto Palker and Amanda Fields chat with Abigail Leonard, author of Four Mothers, about parenting in four different countries, politicizing motherhood, and supporting mothers with the power…

Allison Buccola: Cult Following

Oct 30, 2025 29m

Eva Langston and Amanda Fields chat with Allison Buccola, author of The Ascent, about the anxieties of new motherhood, renegotiating relationships post-childbirth, and navigating career…

Monique Clesca: Silence is a Language

Oct 22, 2025 34m

Amanda Fields and Eva Langston chat with Monique Clesca, author of Silence and Resistance: Memoir of a Girlhood in Haiti, about reckoning with family secrets, healing, and fighting for Haitian…

50th Episode Retrospective: Fangirling & Finding a Groove

Oct 15, 2025 34m

Amanda Fields, Brianna Avenia-Tapper, Holly Rizzuto Palker, and Eva Langston come together to reflect on the evolution of this podcast, memorable guests, and the conversations we can’t wait to have.…

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