Emma Pattee is an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Cut, The Washington Post, Glamour, and more. Her fiction has appeared in Carve Magazine, Citron Review and is forthcoming in The Bellevue Literary Review, The Idaho Review and the New Orleans Review. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

Written by Emma Pattee

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The fog of new motherhood can be a boomtime for creative work

Contrary to the dire warnings that get bandied around, the postpartum period might be a time of heightened creativity

by Emma Pattee