Jul 14, 2021
Excerpt from ‘Wanting: A Memoir of Marriage, Patriarchy, and Privilege’
This memoir excerpt was written by Erin Branning in Megan Stielstra’s 12-Month memoir Generator
Erin Branning
Erin Branning is a fiction editor for TriQuarterly, Northwestern’s literary journal, where she’s published interviews with Ben Fountain and Lily King. Erin has also had work published in Manifest-Station, LitBreak, Delmarva Review and Hippocampus.
Erin holds an MFA from Northwestern University, a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her four children and is currently working on a memoir, Wanting: A Memoir of Marriage, Patriarchy, and Privilege, from which this essay is adapted.
