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Why are divorce memoirs still stuck in the 1960s? – the New York Times Book Review
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LIberation at 30,000 Feet: On the Freedom of Early Airline Stewardesses – Lit Hub
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'Why Was It So Hard?': How the Pandemic Changed Our Children – the New York Times Book Review
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Kid Culture – Aeon
How My Dad Became the Traveler I Once Was – The New York Times
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How the coronavirus pandemic actually eased my anxiety – The Washington Post
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Excerpt of ORDINARY INSANITY – Guernica
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Postpartum Anxiety Is an Epidemic Among American Mothers. Why Does It So Often Go Undiagnosed? – Time
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Telling Stories in Order to Live, Longreads
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Behind the Writing: On Interviewing
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Men can't hear it, women don't say it – the everyday importance of 'no' – The Los Angeles Times
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A Mother's Fragmented Identity – The New York Times
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My Husband's Lover – The New York Times
Between work and motherhood, the space between the halves – The Washington Post
Why don't people take writing about motherhood seriously? Because women do it – The Los Angeles Times
The Making of a Mexican-American Dream – Pacific Standard
The migrant's tale – Aeon
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Living on the Hyphen – Oxford American
Notes from the Milk Cave – The Paris Review
Good Pilgrims – Harper's
Good Pilgrims – Harper's
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American Dirt: A Bridge to Nowhere
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I love Elizabeth Gilbert, and you can too, The Outline
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On Quitting in the Middle of a Marathon, Gay Magazine
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Behind the Writing: On Research, Longreads
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What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics – The Guardian
Washington Post Jorge Santiago Sarah Menkedick
Telling our daughter why hate came to our town – The Washington Post
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Who's Afraid Of The Personal Essay? – Buzzfeed
Unfiltered: How motherhood disrupted my relationship with social media – Southwest
Between Mom and Stepmom – Longreads
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On Oaxaca, Early Pregnancy, and Motherlands – Lit Hub
The Blue Jay's Dance: What Louise Erdrich Taught Me About Motherhood – The Paris Review
The Rider's Prayer – Finalist, The Atavist's Digital Storymaker's Awards
Reunion Island: Chantilly – The Common
My Own Mexican Revolution – World Hum

eBooks

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Wild River Blues – Vintage Short Original
The Beaten Track – Kindle Singles

Selected work from Vela

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The Book and the Baby
The Playground Trap
Together Apart
In Defense of Motherhood as Art
#motherhoodthroughInstagram
Everyday Geography
Writing Like a Motherf*cker
Sarah Menkedick's Four Books on Early Motherhood
A Wilderness of Waiting
Love in los Tiempos del Spanglish
It's Not Personal
Homing Instincts
Written by Women