This unique collection features the best of the online magazine literarymama.com, a site devoted to mother-centric writing with fresh voices, superior craft, and vivid imagery. While the majority of literature on parenting is not literary or is not written by mothers, this book is both. Including creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry, Literary Mama celebrates the voices of the maternally inclined, paves the way for other mother-writers, and honors the difficult and rewarding work women do as they move into motherhood