Christen kauffman biography samples

“Mother” is about a woman giving birth to a squid, an uncommon situation, for sure!

Christen kauffman biography samples

But the story itself, at its heart, it isn’t so much strange as familiar—the way the newborn feels a bit alien, the giving of self, the change in support relationships. What made you decide to write about motherhood in this way?

I’ve been writing about motherhood in one form or another since my second daughter was born a year ago.

This particular story touches on themes (most of which you listed!) regarding the difficulties of motherhood that I hadn’t been able to tap into in other ways. I wanted to take this idea of losing one’s self—a feeling I think all parents (especially mothers) experience at some point if only temporarily—to the extreme and play with surreal elements I didn’t feel as free to explore in other genres.

I really wanted to let my weird imagination go unchecked. Motherhood/parenthood can feel otherworldly sometimes, and it felt natural to let this story ble