Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts - Paperback

by Bee Lavender (Editor), Maia Rossini (Editor)

A smart, sexy, alternately funny and heartbreaking look at balancing art and motherhood, told in the artists' own words.

Do you have a toddler seat strapped in the back of the tour van? Do you write poetry while the baby naps? Have you discovered that becoming a mother has changed not only your daily life but the content of your creative work?

Mamaphonic is an anthology about mothering and the creative process. The book includes confessions and conversations about the true, exhilarating, entertaining, and difficult aspects of remaining creative while raising kids.

Author Biography

Bee Lavender is an activist, author, entrepreneur, and expatriate. Her contributions as a social media pioneer caused Time magazine to call her a "reigning mother superior," and she sold her tech company to Facebook. She is also a critically-acclaimed author, and her work has been reviewed and featured in a wide array of outlets like Fast Company, USA Today, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times, Salon, Time Out, NPR, the BBC, along with independent publications like Bust, Bitch, Hip Mama, and Clamor. Her writing regularly appears in magazines, newspapers, anthologies, and radio programs in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Bee was born and raised on a peninsula west of Seattle. She currently divides her time between London and NYC.