What I Imagined Motherhood Would Be, and What It Is
When you give birth to a life, you are also giving birth to a death.
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Lynn is teaching the current iteration of our 12-month novel generator. If you would like to apply for the next iteration, you can find more information here.
Lynn Steger Strong's first novel, Hold Still, was released by Liveright/WW Norton in March 2016. She received an MFA from Columbia University and her non-fiction has been published in Guernica, LARB, Elle.com, Catapult, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. She teaches both fiction and non-fiction writing at Columbia University, Fairfield University, and the Pratt Institute. Lynn's second novel, Want, is forthcoming from Henry Holt in spring 2020.
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