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Amy Bornman
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mom 〰️ poet 〰️ sewist 〰️ read my
books, Broken Waters (2025), and There is a Future (2021) 〰️ more at amybornman.com
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"The shape of the writing changes, but the intention is always the same. I want to know what is happening to me. I want to exhale."

Read @heidifettigwriter.bsky.social's profile of poet, zinester, & designer @amybornman.bsky.social in our Jan/Feb issue:

literarymama.com/articles/dep...
Matrescence is a Long Season: A Conversation with Amy Bornman
Amy Bornman is a writer, artist, and parent living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two books of poetry, There is a Future (Paraclete Press Poetry, 2020) and Broken Waters (Fernwood P...
literarymama.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Such an honor. Thank you for doing this Q+A with me, Heidi!
It’s an honor to have my Q&A with writer Amy Bornman publish in @literarymama.bsky.social /Literary Mama’s latest issue. Read our Q&A to learn more about zines, about, matresence AND this really fabulous writer who is breaking with publishing norms and doing it well! #cnf #matrescence #zines
Matrescence is a Long Season: A Conversation with Amy Bornman
Amy Bornman is a writer, artist, and parent living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of two books of poetry, There is a Future (Paraclete Press Poetry, 2020) and Broken Waters (Fernwood P...
literarymama.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
My sense of justice feels like it has been run over repeatedly by a semi truck.
January 23, 2025 at 8:36 PM
literarymama.com/articles/dep... It was such an honor to be profiled in the new issue of @literarymama.bsky.social ! The whole issue is wonderful! 💫
literarymama.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
open.substack.com/pub/amybornm... I wrote a new essay about reading picture books to my kid
I read picture books more than novels
and it's taking care of me, I think.
open.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Motherhood is a muscle you strengthen over time.
January 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
burrowing into my small and good life.
January 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I’ve been disappearing into novels. Really enjoying this one. Interesting spin on motherhood-as-plot. #booksky
January 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
dinner/bath/bed is the most harrowing part of the day for us moms of little kids
January 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Still thinking about this sign spotted at the @inkandswitch.com get-together:
January 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
today’s blessed object is $4 goodwill shopping cart full of dinosaurs
January 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
shitposting cozy mom content because feels like the world is slowly ending 🙈
January 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Sunday morning Larry
January 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
everything so ominous right now 🫣😢
January 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM
bath aftermath
January 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I’m realizing I got hooked on TikTok watching clips from boygenius concerts summer of 2023 while extremely pregnant and freshly postpartum. It kept me company 🥲
January 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
greatest accomplishment of 2024 was getting really serious about homemade pizza
January 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
an hour in the studio 🪡
January 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Just started a StoryGraph account, finally! Two audiobooks and one print book finished this year! Reading is going to get me through the existential doom. 🥲 app.thestorygraph.com/profile/amyb...
January 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Sharing an important cultural artifact with my kids, aka Steve from Blues Clues
January 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
beauty all around, reminding myself always that this is the good life
January 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I’m really enjoying this book. More plotty than many other novels that hold motherhood as a major theme, in a nice way!
January 11, 2025 at 7:55 PM