MAKE•SHIFT ZINE
digital zine & contributor bios
make•shift digital zine
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make•shift digital zine
Though I wanted to go analogue for this project, I also wanted to honour the ways that caregivers create digitally, through choice or as an adaptation of their practice due to caregiving. Below are some of these ways. There are five contributors to the digital zine but the contributions are lengthier than those in the physical zine, so I suggest taking your time to work your way through this post. One of the benefits of a digital zine like this is that you can interact with the content in different ways and you can comment below, so I’d love to hear your thoughts on the work and I am sure the contributors would too!
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Proposition for rehearsing my own death by Georgia Wall
These videos document a practice I do daily, which I call “proposition for rehearsing my own death”. These daily “falls” (as I call them) began on Inauguration day Jan 2017 — I have done one fall every day since. This is the only creative practice that I have remained consistent with throughout my journey as a mother. The first video is me in the hospital the day of my induction.
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Georgia is a mother, artist and Ceremonialist who works with the mediums of performance, video, paper, song, time, and composition. Wall was born in New York City in 1986 and now lives and works in Queens, NY. She holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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It’s Probably Whatever You Think It Is, 2023 by Dina Kelberman
Part of a collection of videos I made for an online residency in which once a week I livestreamed myself editing the residency website as a meandering creative medium. I accompanied these streams with pre-recorded ambient synthesizer tracks that prominently used recordings of my then-two-year-old daughter. I’m predominantly a visual artist and this was my first foray into making music, a practice that I have happily continued to explore. This process of recording and composing using my daughter’s voice has been an important part of my creativity as a mother. My desperation to capture my daughter in time as she grows so rapidly as well as the difficulty of finding ways to stay creative while struggling just to keep up with the everyday of parenting has led me down new and mysterious roads.
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Dina is a multi-media artist who explores human nature through found digital media. Through her accumulation projects, such as her best-known work, I’m Google, she demonstrates an obsessive attention to patterns in the world. Her exhibitions and bibliography include the New Museum, Marina Abromovic Institute, Fotomuseum Winterthur, The New York Times, NPR, Art21 and various art theory books and textbooks.
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Braiding the Fragments by Heather Britton
Braiding the Fragments explores the convergence of creativity and one’s evolving identity during pregnancy, through both secondary and practice research resulting in the creation of an original audiovisual composition.
Materials: Original compositions and field recordings written and recorded in Logic Pro. A collage of self-shot digital and archive footage (16mm film collected by nature filmmaker and Doctor of Science William Harlow, with thanks to the SUNY archives) edited in Premiere Pro.
Heather is a multi-instrumentalist, filmmaker and audiovisual composer, working across multiple mediums and genres. She completed her MA in Creative Practice at Goldsmiths University, where she produced her first audiovisual album and a documentary film exploring the effects of aging on the identity of a nonagenarian jazz musician. Projects include composition and score for a political sound piece for the BBC, ICA and NTS radio, composing music for film and TV and numerous video editing projects including live visuals for choral group The Sixteen, an award-winning short for Kew Gardens, various music videos and an ethnographic film ‘Goong: Sound Through Fire’ about the making of a Javanese gong. She is on the editorial board for the audiovisual journal Sonic Scope and is an associate lecturer at BIMM and Goldsmiths University.
vimeo.com/heatherbritton / f.io/AqGCLs1o
instagram.com/callunacallunacalluna
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Rites of Passage, 2024 by Ashley Czajkowski
“Rites of Passage” is a video diptych filmed one week before I gave birth and again one year postpartum. The term “rites of passage” references a ceremony or ritual marking a significant, often biological, event; such as maturation and death, or in this case the transformative experience of childbirth and motherhood. Initially created to honor this life-altering shift, I was inspired by Slavic birth traditions and superstitions, such as placing one’s body on the earth during labor for strength, adornments in red, and braiding the mother’s hair for protection. This gesture also became an attempt to process the uncertainty of my new identity and explores the unexpected and conflicting feelings of new motherhood, made more complicated by postpartum rage and depression. The dualities presented are meant to be considered not as separate realities, but held simultaneously as one truth, an entangled embodiment of beauty, pain, tenderness, loneliness, love and loss.
This is a personal story, but it also reflects a collective lack of community and support for new mothers, and a deep need for conversation around maternal mental health. These individual experiences mirror universal events, as both the earth and human bodies, especially maternal bodies, are environments in and on which many living organisms live and depend.
Performance and Video Diptych
I am interested in the tension between domestic and wildness — how these spaces coexist in tenuous relationship both in the environment but also in the inner landscape of the mind and body.
Ashley is a photo-based artist, educator, new mother and curious human animal. These entangled, beloved callings, forever desiring and nourishing her creative energy.
ashleyczajkowski.com / instagram.com/ashleyczajkowski
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#ToddlerLife by Sohan Khalsa
A video from a series of handmade books and other things made from scraps of paper my kids kept strewing on the floor. I figured it was better to use them than get frustrated while continuously picking up and throwing things out. And it gave me a creative outlet to transform scraps into art.
Sohan is an artist, calligrapher and mother from Finland, currently residing in South Florida. As a multidisciplinary artist, Sohan creates prints, watercolors and mixed media works focusing on themes from her personal lived experiences interspersed with florals. You will find her creating in her studio while the kids play in between homeschool moments.
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EXTRA BITS
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READING RECS
Sarah Ruhl, 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write
My Birth by Carmen Winant
Linea Nigra by Jazmina Berrera
Mother Reader by Moyra Davey (especially the chapter by Susan Griffin)
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Dear Writer by Maggie Smith
Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt
And Notre Dame is Burning by Miriam Robinson
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
Pit Lullabies by Jessica Traynor
Reproduction by Louisa Hall
Mothers and Other Fictional Characters by Nicole Graev Lipson
The Old Dictionary by Lydia Davis
Gunk by Saba Sams
the motherhood anthology by little somethings press
A Line Above the Sky by Helen Mort
Ember & Entwined by Sarah Shotts (they/them)
My Work by Olga Ravn
Ongoingness by Sarah Manguso
Cacophony of Bone by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Little Labours by Rivka Galchen
Mother Becoming by Jessie Harrold
The Grand Shattering by Sarah Manguso
Motherhood by Lisa Marchiano
Blood & Cord by Abi Curtis
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli
Milk Report by Conway & Young
Hark by Alice Vincent
Eye Mama Project
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PHYSICAL ZINE CONTRIBUTORS, A-Z
A. Wilder Westgate – make / shift
A. (she/they) is a neuroqueer poet and multipassionate artist living in Binghamton, New York with their family. Drawing inspiration from the ephemerality of life, nature, and parenthood, A. has been publishing poetry and personal essays on their Substack, The WilderNest, since 2023. Their poetry has appeared in the PHIL LIT Journal, and they were nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the PHIL LIT Journal in 2025.
awilderwestgate.com • thewildernest.substack.com
Adele Mary Reed – Reflection in the pan
Adele grew up experimenting with photographic imagery, written word, collage and video through diaristic practices and graduated with a First Class BA in Photography in 2016. She playfully observes places using analogue cameras while walking, noticing light, plants and surfaces, and often presents her work through printmaking and self-publishing. She facilitates Mothers Who Make in Coventry which the past few years has focused on nurturing a garden for mother artists to find solidarity and inspiration.
adelemreed.co.uk • instagram.com/thecatbath
Akili Kamara – Memo(i)r(ie)s
Akili is an unschooling parent who loves to create magic in the every day with their medically complex children. From exploring mother nature, to creating art at home, attending appointments and running errands; they all find the glimmers in the small things and know that is where the magic truly begins. Akili finds an appreciation in creating art that shares the emotions that tend to lurk in the shadows of caregiving.
Alexa Reid – Mother-lab Series: Playing Midwife in Times of Plague
I am a cross-disciplinary artist and teacher making work in the margins between Theatre, Live Art/Performance, and Installation. My current practice research centres on Matrescence articulating and exploring Matrescenography and (M)otherhood as a catalyst for creativity. A key thematic preoccupation within my practice examines cycles of regeneration and degeneration, with a particular focus on the aesthetic and metaphorical tension between fecundity and decay. As a mother of four children, my lived experience of mothering critically informs my practice and pedagogy as a lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London.
alexareid.com/home • instagram.com/alexareidstudio
Allie Hasson – Part of a collection titled The Newborn Phase
Allie is a visual artist and caregiver working in Chicago.
alliehasson.substack.com • instagram.com/alliehasson
Amy Davidson – Map of Motherhood and Postcard to My Lost Self
Amy is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brisbane. She primarily works in mixed media painting and printmaking. Recently Amy has become a first-time mother and has been navigating the profound identity shifts that come with this experience. She is currently exploring this transition into motherhood through her art practice and through reflective essays on her Substack.
thecreativityremedy.substack.com • amydavidson.cargo.site • instagram.com/amydavidson.art
Anna Pinkas – Homescape #4
Anna is a visual artist who collects mundane details to find beauty and whimsy in our everyday life. She often looks at the world through the lens of children and collaborates with them to achieve this goal. Traditional animation (which she studied extensively and teaches) influences her sequential approach: she often works in series and with the book format to surface the strange and beautiful qualities of common behaviors and objects. Anna was born in Geneva, Switzerland (1985). She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
annapinkas.com • instagram.com/annapinkas
Anneke Gerloff-Mazas – Quarantine miniatures 1
Anneke is a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, mother of two and part-time librarian who recently moved to Bern, Switzerland from Berlin, Germany. She is slowly succeeding at finding more time to draw for herself and get some art project ideas out of her drawers.
annekegerloff.tumblr.com • pixelfed.social/annekegerloff
April Conway – Watercolor Palette for Triptych and Unfinished Triptych
April is Catalina’s mom and has found that sometimes the best way to make art is with her kid. April is a lecturer at the Sweetland Center for Writing at the University of Michigan and co-organizes Zine Jamboree, a zine festival in Ypsilanti, MI. She writes and makes art across genres, to varying degrees of completion. Her latest publication is a comic, “Dear Bria,” that appears in Pencil Magazine.
Ashley Czajkowski – Blood Moon and mama and baby
Ashley is a photo-based artist, educator, new mother and curious human animal. These entangled, beloved callings forever desiring and nourishing her creative energy.
ashleyczajkowski.com • instagram.com/ashleyczajkowski
Becky Demmen-Sewell – Stages of idea loss whilst feeding a baby and you can’t move or write notes
I am a photographer and my artistic process is rooted in the idea of home, resonance, and belonging (either embracing it or finding it). “Home” spans everything from the house I live in to the landscape I come from. I make work that explores life, moments and a feeling of place. I focus on domestic still life and nature using light to enhance mood, and create a sense of presence, connection to place and immersion, which emphasises storytelling through visuals.
instagram.com/timetobephotography • timeto.be
Becky Houston – Between Scylla and Charybdis
Becky, MSW (she/her/hers) is a social worker and poet originally from the U.S., currently living on unceded Nggunuwal land in Canberra, Australia. In 2024 she was awarded the Emerging Poet Prize by Liquid Amber Press, and her poem ‘Open-Mouthed’ was shortlisted for the Liquid Amber Poetry Prize on Change. Her poems explore the erotic in all its forms, and she is a firm believer in the power of bridging the gap between our innermost desires and our current external realities.
beckyhoustonpoet.my.canva.site/becky-houston-msw • instagram.com/alittlespacetoholdalot • substack.com/@alittlespacetoholdalot • facebook.com/alittlespacetoholdalot
Caitlynn Cummings – Poems for the Early Days
Caitlynn has an MSc in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh and writes poetry, non-fiction, fiction, and drama. She is the owner of the travel consultancy DOP Italian Travel and has worked for many Canadian literary organizations. Chapbooks of her short fiction include Mezzo Millimetro and Chloe, and her work can also be found in New Writing Scotland, Italy Segreta, CV2, Women in Clothes, This Magazine, Alberta Views, The Calgary Project, dead (g)end(er), Cordite Poetry Review, Glass Buffalo, ditch, and on permanent display at the new Calgary Public Library. You can find her weeding, writing, and raising the fifth generation on her Albertan family farm in Canada. Caitlynn is currently at work on a poetry collection about gardening and early motherhood; follow her exploits in sauerkraut and metaphor.
instagram.com/caitlynncummings
Camilla van Rosendal – Notes App at 3:14am
Camilla is a writer and mother based on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her work explores motherhood, care, intuition, and creativity shaped by interruption and lived time. She is the author of Scatter to Bloom: Conversations with My Intuition and writes across poetry, lyric essay, and fragmentary forms.
peacefulmamaproject.com.au • instagram.com/peacefulmamaproject • instagram.com/camillavanrosendal.writer
Caroline S. Beit Beale – Grief is in my DNA
Caroline is a mother, medical student, and writer. She enjoys writing poems and prose through the lens of motherhood, faith, wishes, hopes, dreams, fairy dust, and a sprinkle of science.
Caroline McAuliffe – Cars & Trucks
Caroline is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and community organizer. She blends life and art through costume and play using narrative scenes that explore the identity-shifting experience of motherhood, its myths, and her desires and discomforts within the role. Her work has appeared in group shows both nationally and internationally. She lives and creates in Brooklyn with her wife and child.
carolinemcauliffe.com • instagram.com/carolinemcauliffeart
Catherine Martin – Madonna II
Catherine, born Harrogate 1983, makes large, figurative paintings, rich in human presence and emotional depth. Guided by empathy and an instinctive, narrative-led practice, her paintings invite viewers into intimate explorations of memory and connection. Catherine works as a project coordinator and stonemason on heritage buildings, alongside her art practice, alongside her role as a mother.
catherinemartinmakes.com • instagram.com/catherine_martin_makes
Catrin Kemp — Excerpt from Jennifer (a work in progress, possibly a novella?)
Catrin is an emerging writer and award-winning creative producer. Her writing intersects matrescence, identity, grief and midlife, aiming to give voice to modern-day interior experiences seen through a darkly comic female lens. As a creative producer, Catrin founded and is the director of The New Mothers’ Writing Circle, a groundbreaking project which seeks to ventilate narratives of motherhood and empower women and non-binary people to talk and write about the myriad experiences of modern mothering.
newmumswriting.co.uk • instagram.com/newmumswriting • instagram.com/catrin_kemp_
Ciara Callaghan – Notes on Tadhg
Ciara is an artist based in the UK working across sculpture, curation, and production. Her sculptural practice explores the material as a gateway to the immaterial, drawing inspiration from objects used in ceremony and ritual. She reimagines these artifacts for a contemporary society, examining their historical uses and interpreting their significance today.
ciaracallaghan.com • instagram.com/ciarakathleencallaghan
Clare Hobbs – Untitled
Clare is an artist and art psychotherapist who lives and works in Cambridgeshire. Her work focuses on the everyday, inviting viewers to create a narrative around small and often overlooked moments.
Clare Skelton-Morris – Go a long way
Originally from Northumberland, Clare is a writer and communications manager, and mother of two sons, now living in Glasgow.
substack.com/@clareskeltonmorris
Crissi Cochrane — Gently Used
Crissi is a singer-songwriter and poet based in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Her music has earned more than 13 million Spotify streams, a song sync in the TV show Nashville, and performances at festivals, including Canadian Music Week and the Junos. Her sixth album/EP Fire Sign is set for release in spring 2026, with the first singles “Black Wasp” and “Meet Me at Malden” available now on all streaming platforms. Between running the Windsor music label Soul City Music Co-op and raising two young daughters, Crissi is also a devoted poet-in-progress, with her poems appearing in Pagination Magazine by Windsor Public Library in 2022 and 2024, the Shades of Blue exhibition by Interminus Windsor in 2026, and the 2026 “Remember When” anthology by Local Gems Press in Long Island, New York.
crissicochrane.com • instagram.com/crissicochrane • facebook.com/crissicochrane • youtube.com/crissicochrane
Daisy Thomas Stone — Packing List
Daisy lives in England. She loves wild places by the sea, pottery, strong coffee and dark chocolate. She has had work published in Motherlore Magazine and Wild Whispers and inside Poetry Pharmacy pills.
substack.com/@daisythomasstone • instagram.com/@daisythomasstone
Debby Goan — Beetle Things
Debby is a visual artist, writer and entrepreneur in New York City. Her work explores domestic labor, and the overlapping identities of mother, executive/employee, and creative.
debbygoan.com • instagram.com/debbygoan
Domino Pateman – MY TIME IS MY OWN
Domino is an artist working across drawing and sculpture, exploring how invisible and imagined spaces can be made visible, and vice versa. Through large-scale, fragile and often suspended works, she moves between two and three dimensions, allowing drawings to shift into sculptural form and back again. She is a solo mother to a young daughter and balances her art practice alongside a full-time job, which informs the rhythms and constraints of her making.
Emily C-D – Luna Moth
Emily is a single mom and transdisciplinary artist originally from the swampy coastal region of Maryland, USA, based in the semi-arid highlands of central Mexico for over a decade, and working on both sides of the border. She investigates the tension between social and environmental issues through painting, sculpture, social practice and performance. A voracious reader and occasional writer who has wanted to illustrate picture books since childhood, she is still waiting to make her big break in the KidLit world.
emilycd.com • instagram.com/emilycdart
Emily Souther – Warning
Emily is an educator, writer, mother, and several other things. She began writing flash narratives in the tiny fissures of time between childrearing, working, and completing other adult responsibilities. She hopes one day to produce a collection that highlights the complicated nature of motherhood.
educatoremily.com • instagram.com/emilyrosesouther
Eva Živa Blažková – She is Flow
Eva is a creatrix of various kinds originally from Czechia. She has lived in Bristol for over a decade. Her artwork and poetry are devoted to restoring the feminine and earth-based spirituality within the western culture. Živa also offers creative workshops for nature connection and wellbeing for women and kids.
create.share.heal@gmail.com • instagram.com/ziva.zena
Farah Q Faizi – Pump it up 4/27/2023
I am a former good girl who has reached a dead end. I am ready to return to the beginning before the world took over. I am not here to break the norm but reclaim my space in the norm. I am a mother of three little dragons, and a clothing designer, writer and artist residing in the Hudson Valley of New York. My inspiration begins with a question and my process is driven by deconstructing stereotypes of the answers to those questions. I enjoy the abstract and the metaphorical realm where you can find answers without seeking them. I thrive on the interdependence of words and visuals that help me translate an idea.
thegoodgirlsdiary.substack.com • instagram.com/the_good_girls_diary
Frances Rothwell Hughes – Interference Pattern II
Frances is an art historian and compulsive maker, with a particular interest in the history of print. She has a PhD in early modern History of Art from the University of Cambridge, where she has also been an Affiliated Lecturer. She is currently on maternity leave from her role as Creative Arts Coordinator at Downing College, Cambridge.
instagram.com/francesrothwellhughes • francesrothwellhughes.com
Gabrielle Rowell – Tully
Gabrielle is a mother and educator living and working in Arkansas. Her work is made in collaboration with her young children.
instagram.com/gabriellerowell • facebook.com/gabrielle.rowell
Gemma Bryce – Me and Vaila and Shapes
Gemma’s art is a reflection of the radical creative act that is mothering. Her work is an expression of her own matrescence – creative uncoverings that illustrate the rawness of real-time creation. She writes in thin slices of time and draws alongside her children.
instagram.com/gemmabrycecreative • substack.com/@gemmabrycecreative
Gemma Jerome – Walking the Dog Meditation
Gemma is a writer and parent navigating the “predictable arrhythmia” of life 22 months into the wild trip of motherhood. Her work explores the friction between creative ambition and the visceral, “liquid light” devotion of carework. She writes in the gaps—on trains, in the flickering light of tea-lights, and in the fleeting moments before her son wakes up.
Generosa Magsarili – Fragments and Collection
Generosa is an artist and writer whose work is shaped by caregiving, memory, and interruption. She creates in moments borrowed from the margins of daily responsibility.
facebook.com/lainie.magsarili • instagram.com/generosa.magsarili
Georgia Wall – “created” on August 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Georgia is a mother, artist and Ceremonialist who works with the mediums of performance, video, paper, song, time, and composition. Wall was born in New York City in 1986 and now lives and works in Queens, NY. She holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Gonneke Zoutendijk – women tree
Gonneke designs interactive performances, installations and word- and visual landscapes that invite connection, with each other or with yourself.
cargocollective.com/gonnekezoutendijk
Heather Brown Barrett – [inhabit / catch & release]
Heather is an award-winning poet in southeastern Virginia. She is a Cherokee Nation citizen and the Membership Chair of The Poetry Society of Virginia. Her work has appeared in Literary Mama, The Ekphrastic Review, Yellow Arrow Journal, formidable Woman sanctuary, OyeDrum, and elsewhere. Much of her work is influenced by themes and dualities of motherhood, and modes of forgiveness, curiosity, time, and attention. She’s the author of Water in Every Room (Kelsay Books, 2025), a collection of poems embodying the fluctuations of emotion and form in new motherhood.
heatherbrownbarrett.com • instagram.com/heatherbrownbarrett • substack.com/@heatherbrownbarrett
Holly Blue — Geometry
Holly is a writer and performer from Liverpool, UK. As a new mother, she has recently been embracing the imperfection of writing in the small, stolen pockets of time she stumbles upon throughout each chaotic day. She performs regularly at spoken word open mic events – childcare depending – and her poetry has been featured on BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Upload.
instagram.com/mermaidmurmurs • YouTube & TikTok @hollybluewrites
Ina Edera – Staring at you
Ina is a contemporary artist based in Spain whose practice weaves together themes of technology, trauma, and the human body through immersive, layered compositions. Originally from Germany, her artistic voice reawakened during her second pregnancy which led her to begin formal studies in fine art, a return to embodied presence that continues to anchor her work. With a background in tech and a current role as Engineering Manager at Wikimedia Foundation, she channels the tension between digital overexposure and physical rootedness into tactile, sensory works that invite viewers to slow down and reconnect with themselves.
Isabelle de Grave – Unmade
Isabelle is an emerging writer living in East Sussex. She has poems published by Discretionary Love and Mugwort Magazine, and is currently working on her first collection exploring motherhood, human nature, identity and sexuality — a swirl of laundry loads and wild plants, pigeons and school runs, tantrums and tupperware and an unexpected hare.
instagram.com/isabelledegrave • x.com/izidegrave
Jamila Walker – Hair
Shropshire Artist, Jamila’s art practice focuses on the small details of everyday life. Jamila creates artwork, using digital photography and illustration, playing with narrative layers, textures and colour. In addition to being an exhibiting Artist, Jamila is also involved in Community Arts, Arts for health, artist residencies and commissions.
jamilawalkervisualartist.co.uk • instagram.com/jamila_artist • x.com/jamila_artist • facebook.com/jamila.visual.artist
Jaymes Fedor – Milk Ink
Jaymes is an artist and mother of two. She creates playful figurative paintings and sculptures that bounce between anxiety and delight. You can find her figures crying, picking flowers, lactating, and doing other life-things, much like the artist herself.
jaymesfedor.com • instagram.com/tenderneath
Jen McGowan – Find the Time
Jen is an artist, educator, and caregiver situated in the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, Canada. In her interdisciplinary practice, she allows each project to determine the choice of medium and often repurposes the discarded material detritus of childcare. Her work currently navigates lived maternal experience and the socio-political systems that weigh upon it. She is particularly interested in how the exploitation of care labour persists because of its benefit to capitalist patriarchy. Jen recently completed the Master of Fine Arts program at Emily Carr University. Her thesis work, Invisible Labour Loops, has been featured in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities, Art in the Open Festival, and was recently presented at the Universities Art Association of Canada conference. She previously earned a Bachelor of Education degree from the University of British Columbia.
Josie Rose – Nightlight bottle cap
Josie is a mom and artist born and raised in San Francisco. She loves to go on runs, walks and bike rides throughout the bay area. She practices painting, photography and writing.
Kaila Gallacher – Mother Gales
Kaila is an artist, writer and poet with a passion for the natural world and all the wild it holds. She’s currently navigating life in the fog of postpartum and early motherhood in a chronically-ill, disabled & neurodivergent body. Her first chapbook ‘mo nighean: the universe inside the comma’ was published in 2022.
apoeticnature.substack.com • instagram.com/thistlesthornsandpoetry
Kezia Lockhouse – Page from my notebook: professional identity cleave (not yet resolved)
Kezia lives in Cambridge and writes poetry in the breathing spaces. She is inspired by her experiences of motherhood and matrescence.
Kirsty Crawford – Lily Pad
Kirsty is a conservationist, writer and community engagement manager who lives in Glasgow. She has a BA in Creative Writing and an MSc in Wildlife Biology. She recently won the Poetry Prize and Grand Jury Prize at the 2025 Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival and was Highly Commended in the Magma Poetry Competition ‘Judge’s Prize’ 2025.
Laura Grevel – no time
Originally from the USA, Laura has lived in Europe for 25 years. Her poetry has been published internationally in anthologies, journals and zines. She is an active member of the online international poetry community.
instagram.com/lauragrevel • facebook.com/LauraHGrevel • youtube.com/channel/UCx1dH7vxwIljVxPd8fs_9xQ
Laura Rosengren – Yellow Walk
Laura (she/her) is a Canadian artist currently living and working in Stó:lō territory in Chilliwack, BC. Her practice involves a mixed material approach to painting and considers questions about motherhood and labour. Laura holds a BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts and received an MFA from Emily Carr University in 2025. She has received project grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, and the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and was a finalist for the Salt Spring National Art Prize in 2021 and 2023. Recent exhibitions include Micheal O’Brien Exhibition Commons (Vancouver, 2025), Reach Museum (Abbotsford, 2024), Seymour Art Gallery (North Vancouver, 2023), and THIS Gallery (Vancouver, 2023).
laurarosengren.com • instagram.com/lauralrosengren
Kim Stephens – 9819
Kim is a visual artist living in Glasgow. She has a background in textiles, floristry and flower growing. Her foreground is currently mothering.
Krista Carson – plait & poem
Krista writes poetry, creative nonfiction, and fiction. She is completing doctoral studies at the University of Gloucestershire, where she explores the role of walking in creative writing practice. Krista teaches at the college level and lives in London, Ontario with her husband, daughter, whippet, and cat.
kristcarson.com • substack.com/@kristcarsonwrites
Kristiana Rodriguez – Rest
Growing up the youngest on both sides of her mixed-race family, with a speech impediment, Kristiana had to fight to be heard and understood. This led to her becoming the loudest introvert in the room. Her art and writing embraces the loud and thought provoking. She is obsessed with stories and making sense of the world around her.
Leonie Drake – Patchwork
Leonie writes flash fiction and short stories, usually after putting her daughter to bed. She is also currently working on a middle-grade novel about goblins and neurodiversity. By day she is an editor for an academic publisher, an avid reader, and a keen yet terrible gardener.
Lia Mastropolo – Night Feeding
I’m writing from Philadelphia. My poetry and nonfiction have most recently appeared in The Hopper (where my poem “Coffin Bone” was nominated for a 2026 Pushcart Prize), Swing, and elsewhere magazine.
Lucinda Weston – My baby sleeps
Lucinda is a mother of two with a BA and MA in English Literature from Sheffield University. Writing on the notes app during nap times and typing as many words as possible during a lunch break, Lucinda is still wondering when it is that you can call yourself a writer.
Madison Hendry – On The Inside; Out
Madison received her MFA in Sculpture from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY in 2011. Madison’s works on Motherhood have been exhibited internationally, including her most recent exhibition with ProCreate Project, “Mother Art Prize’‘, Cromwell Place, London, 2020, Solo Exhibition,“Mother/Infant,” Unperceived Existence, Gallery Shush, Europe 2018, and “Project AfterBirth,” Whitechapel Gallery, London 2015 – the first ever international exhibition on the subject of early parenthood. Publications include: “Mother Art”, Women United Art Magazine, House=Home, Arhitext, Romania. She is an Associate Artist of the Digital Institute of Early Parenthood, with Artist Parent Index and her work is in the private collection of the Museum of Motherhood. She was a 2025 Recipient of Ramona Residency in Houston, TX; an artist residency dedicated to Artist Mothers.
mamabirdhendry.com/gallery • instagram.com/mamabirdhendry
Mag Cramer – Do this / and You’ll be
Mag is a writer, mother, and educator living in Chicago. Her work includes creative prose, free verse poetry, and erasure poetry. Previous work has appeared in East on Central, the Women Made Gallery, Mom Egg Review and After Hours Press. She is a founding member of The Glass Eye Collective, an ongoing creative congress that honors the wisdom of our grandmothers.
Mairi Hedderwick Lawther – Well of Tears (and initial sketch)
Mairi creates linocut prints inspired by matrescence and motherhood. Her work is about human connections and family and friends, our support network as humans. Mairi is a printmaker based in Brighton, UK. She lives by the sea with her family. She creates work at home and the lino prints she makes are inspired by her life, architecture and travel.
instagram.com/mhlprints • mhlprints.com
Maria-Justine Keena – The Unsaying
Maria-Justine is an Irish poet whose work explores motherhood, memory and the quiet intensity of everyday moments. Her writing is rooted in lived experience and a deep attention to the body and the natural world.
Marianne Sundquist – Surge
Marianne is a writer and chef in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her poetry has been published by Unwoven Literary & Arts Magazine, and The Champagne Room Journal, among other outlets. She was named the 2026 finalist for the Homebound Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2025, and has work forthcoming in Slipstream Magazine and Two Thirds North. Her weekly recipe column has appeared in The Santa Fe New Mexican for three hundred weeks and counting.
instagram.com/marianne__sundquist
Marina Frangipani – I’m Still Here
Marina is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Brighton, UK. Nowadays, she uses photography and poetry to capture fragments of her creative identity while embracing motherhood’s fractured attention. Her work is a deep reflection on the mundane, the passage of time, and the space in between. Marina’s current project in progress is “Merged Days” (2025–2026) – a collection of haikus and black & white photos that expresses the time and space shift of mothering.
Matea Kulić – Windows
Matea is a mother of two living in Vancouver, B.C., on unceded Coast Salish Territories. Her poetry, essays, and reviews have been published by Demeter Press, The Capilano Review and Room Magazine. She is currently at work on a collection of poems that explore the warped time of early motherhood, freedom and constraint, and the search for a cracked-window-of-possibility form.
instagram.com/babywindows • thecapilanoreview.com/author/mateakulic • roommagazine.com/product/rooms-40th-anniversary-anthology • sfu.ca/gls/news-events/2020/matea-kulic-draws-on-motherhood-for-source-material.html
Maya El Nahal – allmother
Maya is an artist, writer, and mother based in Glasgow. Their multidisciplinary practice explores spiritual, social, and scientific ecologies, through crip and queer lenses. Their work creates unexpected alliances in order to invite alternative perspectives.
mayaelnahal.com • instagram.com/mclrart
Megan Driving Hawk – Motherhood & music
Megan is an artist/mother/educator of Celtic ancestry using photography, poetry, and traditional needlework to facilitate connection, healing, and learning in matrescence and outdoor learning. She is wife and mother in a Lakȟóta Thiwáhe.
instagram.com/mdrivinghawk00 • megandrivinghawk.substack.com
Megan Hogg – Abjection and Boss Baby
Megan is a Glasgow based artist, Art psychotherapist and mother to two young girls. Her work is often diaristic in nature, exploring both the physical and emotional transformations which matrescence and motherhood brings to being, alongside navigating the art therapy profession.
instagram.com/peggy_elizabeth_taylor
Mya Kerner – Blood Moon
Mya is a multidisciplinary artist mother. She paints and writes the landscape, referencing inner, outer, and other worlds. After a decade in other places, Mya has returned to eastern Pennsylvania where she lives and works in a historic roadhouse on a deciduous wetland.
myakerner.com • instagram.com/myakerner • substack.com/@myakerner
Phoebe Rivers – First Year
I live in Bristol in a little house down the lane, with my partner and child. I have a masters degree in Art Health and Wellbeing and am very interested in motherhood as creative process. I set myself a bite-sized creative project of writing a haiku a week across my first year as a mother.
Poppy Kanu – Choosing sleep
I use publishing to archive overlooked stories and question their representation. I am drawn to stories of care and of work that is often made invisible. Through a conversation-led practice, I seek to create space for people to express their authentic and nuanced experiences, exploring how community can be built in both quiet and loud ways.
Raven Ivory – Liminal and Undone
I was raised by a midwife and a brick mason. My 13 years of motherhood have allowed little time for me to pursue art, except in stolen moments, burning both ends of the candle. Between interruptions, and often interrupted, I capture stories with light through a lens or with pen on paper. I live with my beloved family near Minneapolis, MN.
Rose Ross – Dormant Outburst
I am a mother artist living just outside of Glasgow with my amazing husband and absolute hurricane of a 3-year-old daughter. Originally from Calgary, Canada, I moved to the UK 12 years ago, just after completing a Master’s Degree in English Literature and being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. I have always loved collage, the fragmented quality of pulling things together in a way that showcases images in unusual and unexpected ways; it’s always reflected the patchwork, but calculated, way in which I’ve chosen to live my life. Now, as a mother who provides care, and as a person living with a disability who increasingly needs care, collage has become an integral vessel for navigating, reflecting, and celebrating these complexities.
Ruth Batham – Skbk 0 page 4
Ruth was born in the Black Country and moved to London to study at Wimbledon School of Art. In 2019, she was an offsite painter at Turps Art School. Ruth’s work combines a drawing and painting process with a background in Human Science. The inspiration and concepts behind her work are, in essence, people. As a socially minded artist, her concerns centre around human connectedness, relationships and interactions.
ruthbatham.com • instagram.com/ruthbatham
Sarah Attwood – Rocking
Based in Sheffield, Sarah is a multimedia artist with a practice that currently includes drawing, sculpture and photography. Her work often utilises sculptures that can be worn, by the body or the landscape itself to explore themes of societal expectations, the female body, and a sense of place. An advocate of the alternative art school, she completed the Warehouse Art School, a professional practice course for artists run by OVADA (Oxford Visual Arts Development Agency) in 2019.
Shannon Evans O’Brien – the magician
Shannon writes to explore how women make meaning, establish identity, and engage with the divine. Her books include The Mystics Would Like a Word, Feminist Prayers for My Daughter, and Rewilding Motherhood, and her poetry and prose have been published by Literary Mama, Cordella, Ruminate, and Geez.
shannonkevans.substack.com • instagram.com/shannonkevans
Shikara Autumn-Hunt – ADHD, baby (excerpt)
Shikara is a mother/artist/zine store owner (Antipode Zines) based in Norwich, UK. Her practice explores themes of transformation, liminality and storytelling through autobiographical documentation. Shikara explores her own personal journey through motherhood via zines, writing and phone camera roll.
Skyler Larrimore – Hairline Waves
Skyler (she/her/hers) is a lifelong Chicagoan, advocate, artist, and now mother of her sweet son René. She dabbles in painting, dance and photography, but poetry via phone notes has been the most accessible creative outlet in this new parenthood era.
Sohan Khalsa – I’m tired. I don’t want to go to bed.
Sohan is an artist, calligrapher and mother from Finland, currently residing in South Florida. As a multidisciplinary artist, Sohan creates prints, watercolors and mixed media works focusing on themes from her personal lived experiences interspersed with florals. You will find her creating in her studio while the kids play in between homeschool moments.
Sophia McGovern – milk
Sophia is a writer and mother based in Tempe, Arizona. She weaves fibers, mixed media, and words into her creative practice, alongside mothering. She founded Little Somethings Press, which publishes short prose and poetry in handmade books. Her work has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the City of Tempe, and the Mesa Arts Center, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She’s been published in Motherlore Magazine, Fiction Attic Press, Folklore Review, and elsewhere.
Sophia Platts-Palmer – Untitled Toddler Collaboration
I am a Hertfordshire based artist and mother.
Sophie Lewisohn – Printing Time
Sophie is a British-Danish painter and printmaker whose linocuts form a visual diary, distilling moments from everyday life. A major theme at present is life with small children, and Sophie’s ‘motherhood series’ of linocuts now numbers more than 20 prints. They document this particularly intense phase of life in a postcard format suited to short bursts of studio time. Sophie currently has solo exhibitions in London at 6 Clerkenwell Close and Amsterdam at Tweede Boomdwarsstraat 14.
sophielewisohnart.com • instagram.com/sophielewisohnart
Wieke Vink – Anchor
Wieke is a London-based poet. Originally from the Netherlands, Wieke writes in English and Dutch, infused with further multilingual influences that are found in her daily life. Wieke is the host of the Parents for Future (PFF) UK Book Circle, as well as their yearly Poetry Night. Her writing often explores themes of culture, climate, children’s rights, belonging and community.
instagram.com/comm.unitypoetry • substack.com/@nooksofwonder
Yoshe – Nap piece one
Yoshe is an artist and single mother, who explores portraiture in her art, particularly her experiences of pregnancy and motherhood. Influenced by folk art, naive art, and expressionism, she brings her love of bold brushstrokes and vibrant colours to everything she creates.
yoshe.art • instagram.com/yoshe.art
Zeynep Gurtin – Abridged
Zeynep is mother to two indomitable sons, and human to a beloved dog who watches over her from the great ever after. Sometime soonish, she will spend less time writing emails and more time writing poems, but home wasn’t built in a day.
Brilliant work!
This is amazing! ❤️ Thank you for sharing this digital section, and the contributor bios. And thank you again for allowing me to be a part of this wonderful project. I can't wait for my copies to arrive.