NADIA AHIDJO-IYA is an African feminist and mother of two living in Senegal.
TEENA APELES is an LA-based writer and editor who founded the publishing collective Narrated Objects. She is also the mother of a prolific storyteller.
NEELANJANA BANERJEE is the managing editor of Kaya Press and teaches writing at UCLA and Writing Workshops Los Angeles.
BRIT BENNETT is the author of The Mothers.
ROBIN BENWAY is a National Book Award–winning author of six novels. She lives in Los Angeles.
NIKETA CALAME-HARRIS is the voice of Young Nala in The Lion King (1994).
ELINOR CARUCCI was born in Israel and now lives in New York. She is an award-winning fine art photographer whose work has been exhibited worldwide.
JADE CHANG is the author of The Wangs vs. the World.
LAN SAMANTHA CHANG is a novelist in Iowa City, Iowa.
ASH CHOI is a psychotherapist and consultant in Seattle, Washington.
CHARMAINE CRAIG is the author of the novels The Good Men and Miss Burma.
JENNINE CAPÓ CRUCET is the author of the novel Make Your Home Among Strangers, the story collection How to Leave Hialeah, and the essay collection My Time Among the Whites.
KATE CRUM is a broadcast engineer in Bloomington, Indiana.
KRISTEN DANIELS is a writer living in California with her husband and two daughters.
NIKKI MERCEDES DIAZ lives in New York City, works in tech, and loves dogs.
CATIE DISABATO is the author of the novel The Ghost Network.
EIRENE DONOHUE is a screenwriter and mother originally from Rhode Island and currently living in Los Angeles.
CAMILLE T. DUNGY is an editor and author. She has published eight books, most recently Guidebook to Relative Strangers.
KIMBERLY DURDIN is a midwife, lactation consultant, and co-owner of KindredSpaceLA, a birth, lactation, and education center in Los Angeles. She is the mother of six children and a grandmother of three.
JENNIFER EGAN’s most recent novel is Manhattan Beach.
HEATHER EKINS lives in Colville, Washington, next door to her mom. She is a mother of four herself.
ALYCIA ELIZABETH is a college student living in South Carolina.
BARBARA FELDON wrote Living Alone and Loving It! and played Agent 99 in the TV series Get Smart (1965).
BELINDA GABALDON has two kids: a stepson who’s almost twenty and a son who’s eight. She lives in Los Angeles.
ANGELA GARBES is the author of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy. She lives in Seattle.
LYNELL GEORGE is a journalist and essayist based in Los Angeles. She is the author of two books, No Crystal Stair: African Americans in the City of Angels and After/Los Angeles Outside the Frame.
ANNABETH GISH is working hard to juggle the roles of mother/actress/writer/director.
MARGARET GUZIK is a mother of five and grandmother of seven. She was born and raised in New Jersey and enjoys traveling the world.
NANCY HIGH is a retired nurse, first responder, mountain rescue person, a mother of six, grandmother of fifteen, and great-grandmother of twelve.
ANN HOLLER is a writer and former editor and researcher who lives in Los Angeles.
CHELSEY JOHNSON is the author of the novel Stray City and lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
MEGAN JOY is a spa director in the Baltimore, Maryland, area.
RACHEL KHONG is a novelist living in San Francisco.
NYSA WONG KLINE is a daughter, wife, mother, only child, native San Franciscan, amateur fine bookbinder, compulsive photographer, aspiring artist, private pilot, Francophile, and cat person who has worked in the international wine industry for twenty years.
PARIA KOOKLAN is a nonprofit fundraiser living in Southern California with her husband. She talks to her mom at least once a day.
ELLINE LIPKIN is the author of a book of poems, The Errant Thread, and a nonfiction book, Girls’ Studies.
LAURA LIPPMAN is the author of more than twenty crime novels.
SANAM MAHLOUDJI’s fiction appears in Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern and the Kenyon Review. She’s at work on a novel.
FRAN MELMED is pretty sure her daughters haven’t yet considered her life as a Mother Before. She celebrates her mom and all girls with grit as the founder of JMB Award.
WYNTER MITCHELL-ROHRBAUGH is a displaced San Franciscan, digital strategist, podcaster, writer, daughter, sister, and stepmom living in Los Angeles with her loving and patient husband, Allan. Tweet her at @wyntermitchell.
MARIE MUTSUKI MOCKETT is a writer living in San Francisco. Her most recent book is American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland.
AMELIA MORRIS is the author of the memoir Bon Appétempt and the cohost of the podcast Mom Rage.
VALLERIE MWAZO is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Chinese medicine. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling and movement therapy.
TIFFANY NGUYEN is a nonprofit professional living in Omaha, Nebraska.
KIKI PETROSINO is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Witch Wife (Sarabande, 2017).
JASMIN PETTAWAY-SOLANO is an Emmy Award–winning TV producer from Cleveland, Ohio.
CHRISTINE PLATINO and her husband have taken up traveling as their retirement hobby and always send postcards to their grown children and grandchildren.
SAM RADER is a psychologist and perfumer in northeast Los Angeles.
MAYA RAMAKRISHNAN is a law student at the University of Washington.
ALISON ROMAN is the author of the cookbooks Dining In and Nothing Fancy.
RY RUSSO-YOUNG is a writer/director and lives in Los Angeles with her family.
MOLLY SCHIOT is a director living in Los Angeles.
LISA SEE is the author of numerous international bestselling novels, including, most recently, The Island of Sea Women.
DANZY SENNA is the author of five books, including the novels Caucasia and New People.
LAURA SHIELDS is a screenwriter moonlighting as the GM of a popular restaurant in Los Angeles.
GENNIE SIEGEL lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is currently campaigning to become the favorite daughter. Results still pending.
SHARON SMITH is a retired neuropsychologist who has lived with her husband in Maine for nearly fifty years. She enjoys gardening and both reading and writing mystery novels.
KATE SPENCER is the author of the memoir The Dead Moms Club and cohost of the Forever35 podcast.
DANA SPIOTTA is the author of four novels: Innocents and Others, Stone Arabia, Eat the Document, and Lightning Field. She is the daughter of Emy Frasca and the mother of Agnes Coleman.
SUSAN STRAIGHT’s new memoir, In the Country of Women, was published in 2019 by Catapult. Her novels include Highwire Moon, A Million Nightingales, and Between Heaven and Here, all featuring mothers and daughters.
CASSANDRA TALABI lives in Southern California and teaches kindergarten.
ALLEGRA TAYLOR is an early childhood consultant in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
JIA TOLENTINO is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror.
KAREN TONGSON is the author of Why Karen Carpenter Matters (2019) and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). She is a professor at USC and coeditor of the award-winning book series Postmillennial Pop (with Henry Jenkins) at NYU Press.
DARCY VEBBER lives and writes about marriage, family, ritual, and Judaism, in Hollywood, California.
LAURA VEIRS is a singer-songwriter. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two sons.
MARGARET WAPPLER is the author of the novel Neon Green.
CATHY WEISS is an artist, educator, and mother living in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles, with her husband and two dogs.
MOLLY WIZENBERG is the author of A Homemade Life, Delancey, and The Fixed Stars.