The author and editor Jen Sookfong Lee discusses the new collection she’s co-edited with Stacey May Fowles, Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood (Book*hug Press, 2022), with Joseph Planta.

Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee (Book*hug Press, 2022). Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Good Mom on Paper

Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.

Jen Sookfong Lee joins me now. The acclaimed author is the co-editor with Stacey May Fowles, of a new collection of essays, Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood. The pieces look at whether a devotion to literary life can co-exist with parenthood. Does the artist have to sacrifice art for love, or vice versa? I’ll ask Jen about working with Stacey May, and about the work they did as co-editors working with the authors they did who are: Heather O’Neill, Lee Maracle, Jael Richardson, Carrie Snyder, Alison Pick, Meaghan Strimas, Sofia Mostaghimi, Rachel Giese, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Erin Wunker, Jónína Kirton, Jennifer Whiteford, Teresa Wong, Nikkya Hargrove, S. Lesley Buxton, Amber Riaz, Adelle Purdham, Harriet Alida Lye, and Kellee Ngan. The essays in the book are enlightening, enraging at times, and almost always engrossing. They provide insights that everybody needs to read about, whether one is a guy, a fellow parent, or just a reader. A portion of sales will be donated to the Mothers Matter Centre, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering isolated, at-risk mothers. Jen Sookfong Lee is the author of critically acclaimed books The Conjoined, The Better Mother, The End of East, The Shadow List, and Finding Home. She acquires and edits for ECW Press, and is the cohost of the literary podcast Can’t Lit. Ms. Fowles and Ms. Lee co-edited the anthology Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life After Sexual Assault. Visit www.sookfong.com for more information. This new book is published by Book*hug Press. Please welcome to the Planta: On the Line program, Jen Sookfong Lee; Ms. Lee, good morning.

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