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Literary Mama's monthly podcast featuring interviews with mama writers.

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  • Maggie Smith: My Work is Play

    Maggie Smith: My Work is Play
    Oct 8 2025
    For our 50th episode, Holly Rizzuto Palker and Amanda Fields chat with Maggie Smith, author of Dear Writer, about applying poetic license to writing and beyond, embracing the beginner’s mind, and aging in reverse through creativity. Smith’s national bestseller guides the reader on how to unleash the creative mind with ten ingredients, each one explored through inspirational essays and writing prompts. It’s a book for artists of all genres and for everyday life.Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1977, Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful; My Thoughts Have Wings, a picture book illustrated by SCBWI Portfolio grand prize winner Leanne Hatch; the national bestsellers Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life, Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change; as well as Good Bones, named one of the Best Five Poetry Books of 2017 by the Washington Post and winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry; The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, winner of the 2012 Dorset Prize and the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in Poetry; and Lamp of the Body, winner of the 2003 Benjamin Saltman Award.A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received six Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her poems have been widely published and anthologized, appearing in Best American Poetry, the New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, and so many others. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, on the Poetry Foundation website, and elsewhere.Smith holds a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MFA from The Ohio State University. After working for several years in trade book and educational publishing, she now works as a freelance writer, editor, and educator. She has taught creative writing at Gettysburg College, Ohio Wesleyan University, in the MFA and undergraduate programs at The Ohio State University, for the Antioch University Los Angeles Low-Residency MFA, and as MFA faculty for the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. She is also the host of The Slowdown, a poetry podcast from American Public Media, supported in part by the Poetry Foundation.Maggie Smith’s most recent title The People’s Project, an anthology co-curated with Saeed Jones (Washington Square Press/Atria) was released September 9, 2025. Her forthcoming book, A Suit or a Suitcase, a collection of poems (Washington Square Press/Atria) is coming March 24, 2026.Author WebsiteInstagramFacebookPodcastSubstack This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit literarymama.substack.com
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  • Jessica Guerrieri: Addiction and the Shadow Self

    Jessica Guerrieri: Addiction and the Shadow Self
    Sep 24 2025

    Amanda Fields and Eva Langston chat with Jessica Guerrieri, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, about motherhood drinking culture, the power of family and friendship, and addiction. Jessica's debut novel offers an honest rebuttal to the prevalence of alcohol in "mom life" and the fragility of family ties.

    Originally from the Bay Area, Jessica Guerrieri lives in Davis, California, with her husband and three young daughters. Jessica has a background teaching special education but left the field to pursue a career in writing. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea won the Maurice Prize for Fiction from her alma mater, UC Davis. With over a decade of sobriety, Jessica is a fierce advocate for addiction recovery. Jessica's second novel, Both Can Be True, will be released in May 2026 and is available for preorder now.

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  • Catalina Margulis: Humor is My Favorite Flavor

    Catalina Margulis: Humor is My Favorite Flavor
    Sep 10 2025

    Holly Rizzuto Palker and Amanda Fields chat with Catalina Margulis, author of Again, Only More Like You, about a reckoning of journalism, ideas of what a "good mother" is, and hard-kept female friendships. For fans of Elin Hilderbrand and Jennifer Weiner, Again, Only More Like You offers a poignant and humorous look at friendship and reinvention at 40.

    Catalina is an author, podcast host and mother of four who has written for many of Canada’s top publications over the past 20 years. Cat was an editor at ELLE Canada, Flare, and Today’s Parent, she was a regular contributor to Savvymom, Mabel’s Labels, and Walmart Canada, and has written for more than 40 publications, including The Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest, and Yummy Mummy Club. She is also the host of Passion Project, a podcast about making your dreams happen. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she lives with her family in the suburbs of Toronto, Canada.

    Author website: https://catmargulis.com/

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