This collection presents diverse critical perspectives and discussion about the keeping or telling of children’s originstories as a part of contemporary mothering labor. The first two sections outline perspectives from mother authors about how they strategically craft complex origin stories for their child(ren), as well as how the telling and
Kerri Kearney, M.B.A., Ed.D., is an Associate Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs at Oklahoma State University with a research focus on invisible college students, including former foster youth. Through this book and other work, she explores diverse life experiences that influence the college experience and student success.Lee Murray, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the College of Nursing, University of Saskatchewan and a Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) in adolescent mental health. Lee also uses auto ethnography as methodology to explore the normative discourse of mothering in the context of her own experiences as a mom and grandma.
Christopher Golden, Stephen Graham Jones, Chikodili Emelumadu, Lee Murray, John Langan, Nathan Ballingrud, Garth Nix, Brian Evenson, Josh Malerman, Ellen Datlow