May 4, 2013, Saturday - Motherhood & Words Reading at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Motherhood and Words Curated by Kate Hopper

Kate Hopper has been coordinating the annual Motherhood & Words Reading since 2007 as way to showcase excellent literary nonfiction of women writing about motherhood.

Katrina Kenison is the author of Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry, The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir, and Magical Journey: An Apprenticeship in Contentment.  Kenison spent many years working in publishing, first as an in-house editor at Houghton Mifflin Company in New Haven, New York, and Boston, and then, from 1990 through 2006, as the series editor of The Best American Short Stories. She co-edited, with John Updike, The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is also the author, with her yoga teacher, Rolf Gates, of Meditations from the Mat: Daily Reflections on the Path of Yoga. With Kathleen Hirsch she co-edited an anthology of short stories about motherhood, Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood. Her writing has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Country Living, Family Circle, Redbook, and other publications.
 
Caroline M. Grant is co-editor, with Lisa Catherine Harper, of The Cassoulet Saved Our Marriage: True Tales of Food, Family, and How We Learn to Eat. She also co-edited Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life, with Elrena Evans. She is Editor-in-Chief of LiteraryMama.com and the Associate Director of the Sustainable Arts Foundation. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and two sons. Visit her website (http://carolinemgrant.com) for more information, including clips from her radio and television events.
 
Kate Hopper is the author of Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers and Ready for Air: A Journey Through Premature Motherhood (forthcoming). She teaches writing online and at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. Kate holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, and a Sustainable Arts Grant. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals, including Brevity, Literary Mama, and the New York Times online. She is an editor at LiteraryMama.com. For more information about Kate’s writing and classes, visit www.katehopper.com.