SELECTED WRITING "It is late, and I am tired. But my children have come to me pleading for a fort...." The Building of forts Decor Maine "We go to the water, the children and I—the children and I, who have been lashed together like a beleaguered life raft, each of us the other's only hope for survival...." We go to the water Prairie Schooner "And when my daughter grows tired—her legs are short and her stamina is only five years-old—I will carry her. I will crawl through the mud and fight off the leeches, as I have spent my life doing, the same arm over arm drag used by all women to get ahead, to get anywhere..." No Country for Daughters The Normal School "This is the new normal, this endless riptide, this near-drowning. I live at the mercy of the children’s swales and storms and tides..." WHAT WE WANT IS SIMPLE Winner, Maine Literary Award Atticus Review "The babysitter says she has nine days sober, but we all lie, every addict, every alcoholic..." Juggling my Children, my Sobriety, and my Alcoholic Sitter The New York Times "Dear Parents, Know This: Somewhere in your epoch of child-rearing—with babe on hip or perhaps much later—you will shatter completely. You will be destroyed. How could it be any other way?" DEAR PARENTS, KNOW THIS Pushcart Prize Nominee Contrary Magazine "Now he wanted to talk about the thing she didn’t know how to talk about, the thing she had always carried—lugged, really—ever surprised by the agonizing weight of it, a thing she could not name..." The Mass of Invisible Labors Best of the net nominee Waterwheel Review "Dear Parents, Know This: Somewhere in your epoch of child-rearing—with babe on hip or perhaps much later—you will shatter completely. You will be destroyed. How could it be any other way?" I am here and here and here and here Complete Sentence Lit "Grandma will never vacate her two-story colonial for an assisted living facility with a kitchen too small for cookies or care packages. She will never lose the strength to wield a rolling pin or carry a watering can. She will forever..." The Strongest Cookie Hippocampus "I feel like a terrible parent. Every time those moms post their pictures on Instagram—every time they humble-brag on Marco Polo or drop me a text of the rainbow-exploding-birthday cake they pulled an all-nighter baking..." I compare myself to other moms and it's painful Scary Mommy "Barbara Browning's exciting debut novel, The Correspondence Artist, published by Two Dollar Radio, revolves around four love stories, all of which are actually the same love story, but none of which are the real, or true, story." The Correspondence Artist by Barbara Browning KGB Bar Lit "Netsuke opens with a loathsome scene of debauched lust, and from there goes further and further down the rabbit hole into the twisted wonderland of the narrator's mind. But do not turn away from the dark, because what Rikki Ducornet has managed with this little book is quite startling." NETSUKE by Rikki Ducornet KGB Bar Lit "Roy Jacobsen, one of Norway's most prized writers of the last fifty years—the Norwegian equivalent of Carson McCullers or Philip Roth—has published nineteen books, only three of which have made their way to the English speaking world." Child Wonder by Roy Jacobson KGB Bar Lit
