New Books Network Podcasts
Brown, Laura Catherine Made by Mary
Dec
It’s 1999, and Ann is a guitar-playing thirty-year-old preschool teacher who dreams of having children even though she was born without a uterus. As Laura Catherine Brown‘s novel Made by Mary (C and R Press, 2018) opens, Ann and her husband Joel have been rejected as adoptive parents, and their plan to host and pay medical expenses for a pregnant teen goes terribly wrong. Then Ann’s 49-year-old mother Mary, a jewelry-designing, goddess-worshipping, lesbian hippie, offers to carry her daughter’s baby.
Brown’s debut novel, Quickening, was published by Random House and featured in Barnes & Noble’s “Discover Great New Writers” series. Her short stories have appeared in several literary journals, including The Bellingham Review, Monkeybicycle, Paragraphiti and Tin House; and in anthologies with Seal Press and Overlook Press. She received her BA from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan and supports her writing habit by working as a graphic designer. Her writing education came through many writing workshops including the Bread Loaf Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Workshop where she was a fiction fellow. She has also taught yoga since 2003 and has been a yoga practitioner for almost 30 years.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][ut_animated_image size=”full” image=”6603″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwZnJhbWVCb3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDgyJTIyJTIwc2Nyb2xsaW5nJTNEJTIybm8lMjIlMjBzcmMlM0QlMjJodHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnBsYXlsaXN0Lm1lZ2FwaG9uZS5mbSUyRiUzRmUlM0RMSVQzMjcwNDM2ODM2JTIyJTBBd2lkdGglM0QlMjIxMDAlMjUlMjIlM0UlM0MlMkZpZnJhbWUlM0U=[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]
