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Andrea Abrell • Med School Mama (issue 3)
Rhonda Baker • Zuzu and the Baby Catcher (issues 1 • 2)
Rhonda is a midwife and mama living happily in Portland, Oregon. The baby she placed for adoption is now 20 and is a pretty terrific young man, Zuzu is 3.5 and has now been joined by a sister, Josie (9 months)! More stories of her life and other tidbits are all in her zine Zuzu and the Baby Catcher, available for $2 per issue. Cash or check to: Rhonda Baker, 3446 SE Main St., Portland OR 97214. web: www.emeraldgiant.com/babycatcher. email: rhon(at)full-circlemidwifery dot com
Barrilee Bannister • Tenacious (issue 1)
Barrilee is the mother to one 12-year-old daughter, whom she hasn't lived with in nine years. In 1996, she organized the women imprisoned in a privately-run, all male prison in Arizona against the sexual harassment and abuse by staff. She was a plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit, which resulted in an apology, the payment of attorney fees, and the firing of three dozen guards. She is currently housed in Oregon's only female prison, where she co-edits Tenacious: Writings from Women in Prison and continues to speak out against the injustices of the prison system. Her daughter will be thirteen when they are finally able to live together. To order Tenacious, send $2 in concealed cash or postage stamps to: V. Law, PO Box 20388, Tompkins Square Station, New York NY 10009.
Christie Barcelos • in the (m)other tongue (issue 3)
Muffy Bolding • Withered Debutante (issue 3)
Mariah Boone • Lone Star Ma (issues 1 • 2 • 3)
Mariah is a sister, mother, social worker, and the publisher of Lone Star Ma: The Magazine of Progressive Texas Parenting and Children's Issues. Lone Star Ma is a reader-written magazine for the Texas parent who loves the Lone Star State but may be sadly underachieving its average of three guns for every man, woman and child. If you are interested in breastfeeding, the family bed, babywearing, feminist parenting, good books, fashion doll alternatives, sex education books for your kindergartener, important issues for teens, or the politics of parenting in Texas, then you shore as mastitis on a busy vacation need Lone Star Ma. Check us out at www.LoneStarMa.com. email: mariah(at)LoneStarMa dot com. mail: Lone Star Ma, PO Box 3096, Corpus Christi TX 78463-3096.
Trula Breckenridge • Ultra Magazine (issues 2 • 3)
Trula Breckenridge publishes Ultra Magazine and is the owner of the indie press Mama Specific Productions. Check out all of her projects at http://www.MSPmedia.net.
Andrea Buchanan • LiteraryMama.com • PhillyMama.com (issue 1)
Andrea Buchanan is the author of Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It (Seal Press 2003), a collection of essays on the culture shock of new motherhood. She is also managing editor of LiteraryMama.com, an online literary magazine for the maternally inclined. Her work has been featured in Parents magazine, NickJr. magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, the collection Breeder: Real Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers, and in on-line parenting magazines including PregnancyandBaby.com, Oxygen.com, and HipMama.com. Her syndicated column "The Dark Side" runs on various websites, including the site she created for Philadelphia mothers, PhillyMama.com. Before becoming a mother, Andrea was a classical pianist. Her last recital was at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, back before she knew how to play the Teletubbies theme song. She lives with her family in Philadelphia. For more information about her book Mother Shock, visit http://www.mothershock.com.
Candyce • Eat Yer Heart Out, Martha (issue 1)
Candyce is a 30 year old writer, musician, activist and teacher living somewhere in the Dirty South. email: hellocooldisaster(at)hotmail dot com
Beth Carter • Hippo Hank (issue 2)
Nicole Chaison • Hausfrau muthah-zine (issues 2 • 3)
Nicole Chaison produces Hausfrau muthah-zine, which chronicles the roller coaster of passion that is parenting. Nicole lives in Portland, Maine with her hubby, Craig Lapine, and children, George and Dora. She can be reached at thehausfrau(at)gmail dot com. Hausfrau muthah-zine is published 3x annually: $12 to Nicole Chaison, P.O. Box 10383, Portland, ME 04104. You can get a peek at the most recent issue and subscribe online at www.thehausfrau.com.
Heather Cushman-Dowdee • Hathor the Cowgoddess (issues 1 • 2)
Heather is an artist who has found herself completely transformed by the births of her three ! daughters. She celebrates the transformation to Cowgoddess in amusing cartoons and insightful/incite-ful commentary about homebirthing, breastfeeding on demand, maintaining constant contact, sharing space, unschooling, and saving the world. If you would like to see her work, you can visit her online at www.thecowgoddess.com and there you can sign up to receive a free online zine (really just a short note hi! and the latest cartoon). You can also buy her books at the website, OR you can contact Heather and order directly: hathor(at)thecowgoddess dot com.
Rosa-Maria DiDonato • Placenta (issue 1)
Zanna DiMarzio • Zanna, Do! (issue 2)
Robin Dutton-Cookston • Apron Strings (issue 3)
Laurel Dykstra • Baby Bloc (issue 2)
Laurel Dykstra is a writer, activist and artist. She is the queer mama of sperm-donor twins Harriet and Myriam. Laurel co-edits the zine Baby Bloc "for activists in a family way," and has just published Uncle Aiden, a Queer Positive children's book about why every little girl needs a gay uncle. Find her at www.babybloc.org.
Lauren Eichelberger • Are We There Yet? (issue 1)
Becky Ellis • Red Diaper Baby (issue 1)
Meg Ferrante • Screamachine The Mamacoaster Zine (issue 2)
Meg Ferrante has been married for 12 crazy years to her best friend. She's a mom of two young boys, living a peachy life in the suburbs of Atlanta, but always longing for more. More time in the day to write, more sunshine to send the kids out into, more money to travel and play, more peace on earth. Her creation, Screamachine The Mamacoaster Zine, is a product of all that untamed desire. To order the quarterly Screamachine (30-some pages crammed to the margins with the messy, moving, miraculous tales of our many, varied, soulful mama lives), please email Meg at screamachine(at)bellsouth dot net. Copies are $2 or trade, subscriptions $10 a year.
Kara Fleck • Wrinkle (issue 1)
Kara pours her heart out a handful of times a year in Wrinkle, a perzine about motherhood, toddlerhood, breastfeeding, and too much poop & pee. She also edits the freebie zine Yes, I'm STILL Nursing. Here's what Kara has bribed folks to say about Wrinkle: "Wrinkle is a collection of stories that weave themselves around the idea of love--love to seek and love to flee; love as desire, as guilt, as confusion or self-betrayal; love as habit, as affair, and as life-changing rebellion." • "A pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-seat, action-adventure thrill ride, if you see one movie this summer this should be it!" • "Wrinkle stands alone as a gritty examination of the American family's seedy underbelly." • "If you like stick figures and babies Wrinkle could change your life."
Ariel Gore • Hip Mama (issues 1 • 2 • 3)
Ariel Gore has been publishing Hip Mama since 1993. The best of the zine is collected in the anthology The Essential Hip Mama. Ariel's books include The Hip Mama Survival Guide, The Mother Trip, Atlas of the Human Heart, Whatever, Mom, and the novel The Traveling Death & Resurrection Show. Her newest book is How to Become a Famous Writer Before You're Dead (2007). She teaches the Memoir Workshop at The Attic in Portland, Oregon. Email her: ariel(at)hipmama dot com. To subscribe to Hip Mama, send the amount between $12 and $20 you decide you can afford to: Hip Mama, PO Box 12525, Portland OR 97212, or subscribe online at the Hip Mama Shop.
Stacey Greenberg • Fertile Ground (issues 1 • 2 • 3)
Fertile Ground: For People who Dig Parenting is a quarterly zine edited by Stacey Greenberg. Stacey is an urban anthropologist and mother of two who spends a good bit of her time encouraging friends and online acquaintances to share their lives in the pages of her zine. To view the current issue, back issues, sample the contents, and/or subscribe visit www.fertilegroundzine.com.
Katherine Gulas • Momtime (issue 2)
Kate Haas • Miranda (issues 1 • 2 • 3)
Kate Haas publishes Miranda, a zine about motherhood and other adventures. Miranda delves into Kate's Peace Corps travel days, her constant quest for reading time away from the kids, and the strange joys and deep ambivalence of being a mother. Book reviews, recipes, and regular profiles of lost companions round out each issue's mix. "Even if the rigors of small child wrangling have dulled your palate for motherhood-related reading material, you'll savor thah flavah of Kate Haas' zine," says Ayun Halliday (East Village Inky). Kate's writing has appeared in Brain, Child, The Mothers Movement Online, Nervy Girl Magazine, and Phillymama.com. She lives in Portland OR with her husband and two sons.
Ayun Halliday • The East Village Inky (issues 1 • 2)
Ayun Halliday is the sole staff member of the quarterly zine The East Village Inky and the author of Dirty Sugar Cookies, Job Hopper, No Touch Monkey! and The Big Rumpus: A Mother's Tale from the Trenches. She is BUST magazine's Mother Superior columnist and also contributes to NPR, Hipmama, Bitch, Utne, and more anthologies than you can shake a stick at without dangling a participle. Ayun lives with her husband, playwright Greg Kotis and their well-documented children in a small apartment in Brooklyn. Dare to be heinie and visit www.ayunhalliday.com. email: ayun(at)ayunhalliday dot com. East Village Inky annual subscription: $8. Subscribe online or send cash or check payable to Ayun Halliday (not East Village Inky ), PO Box 22754, Brooklyn NY 11202.
Rahula Janowski • Joybringer (issue 3)
Lisa Kilmer • Materotic (issue 2)
Elizabeth Cable Landry • Motherload (issues 1 • 2)
Lizzie Cable Landry authored a zine called Motherload for three years but has put it on the shelf while she finishes an art degree and continues her musical pursuits. She lives in Oregon with her son, husband, rabbit, and yellow lab. Feel free to send forgotten zine trades her way: Box 51404 Eugene OR 97405. website: www.elizabethcable.indiegroup.com
Andrea Lani • Gemini (issue 3)
Heather LaPorte• MomBom(b) (issue 2)
Bee Lavender • A Beautiful Final Tribute • hipmama.com (issue 1)
Vikki Law • Family Values: a Parental Approach to the Republican National Convention • Mama Sez No War • Tenacious • and many others (issues 1 • 2 • 3)
Vikki is the mother to one feisty little dragon. When not chasing her daughter around, she writes for various zines and is one of the outside co-editors of Tenacious: Writings from Women in Prison. In addition to compiling Mama Sez No War, a zine anthology of mothers' art and writings protesting the U.S. war with Iraq, and Family Values: a Parental
Approach to the Republican National Convention, a collection of mothers' experiences protesting the RNC in NYC, Vikki is also one of the writers in the zine series Fragments of Friendship, the correspondence between herself and China Martens about two mama writers' struggles, experiences, and feelings about writing, motherhood, creativity, community, and
survival. She is currently working on a zine series chronicling the history of ABC No Rio, a community arts center on the Lower East Side. She can be contacted at: cradlecap00(at)yahoo dot com, or via snail mail at: PO Box 20388, Tompkins Square Station, New York NY 10009.
Corbin Lewars • Reality Mom (issue 3)
Kathy Fitzsimmons Lopez • Hausfrau (issue 1)
Erika Lukas • Mad Lovin' Mama (issue 3)
Y. Madrone • Mamazine (issue 1)
Stacey Marie • Phases of the Moon (issue 3)
China Martens • The Future Generation (issues 1 • 2 • 3)
China is the editor of The Future Generation, a zine for subculture parents, kids, friends + others. Issues are available by sending $3 to PO Box 4803, Baltimore MD 21211. She has a short story published in Breeder: Real Life Stories from the New Generation of Mothers; is a columnist for Slug and Lettuce; and won the 2002 Baltimore City Paper "Best Of" zine award for I was...a student nurse. China also wrote these little self published things: True Monster Stories; Zen Dream Bride Doll; A little book of short stories; and the latest (a mini-zine illustrated by Matt Kestler) - Dust Bunny, Stories of the Fretting House Frau. email: China410(at)hotmail dot com
Sarah Martin • Crunchy Granola Earthmama Says (issue 1)
Sarah is a freelance writer and homeschooling mom living in Western NY with her husband and three children. Her first zine, Crunchy Granola Earthmama Says, is no longer being made. She is currently in the process of putting together a new project with a few other writing mothers. After Eden: Tales from the Garden of Life is her new zine which will include original fiction and personal essays from writing parents. Submissions and inquiries can be sent to sarah_aftereden(at)yahoo dot com.
Noemi Martinez • Hermana, Resist (issues 1 • 3)
Noemi Martinez, in her late twenties, is a single Chicana writer/mother, poet and activist. She writes the zines Hermana, Resist, aged noise and Homespun. She lives in South Texas, along with her 4-year-old son River and daughter Winter. One reviewer wrote of her zines, "Her pieces are painful, scared and angry, but also strong as hell. She is a true survivor." Noemi runs an online distro at http://www.csdistro.com. CS Tiendita is a distro center for women and women of color (mujer) projects, centralizing on Chicana and latina and people of color produced projects. We have carried personal zines, literary zines, radical zines, parenting zines, craft zines, food zines, as well as chapbooks, buttons and pins, stickers, pillows, seasalts, face and body scrubs, and many more crafty items. mail: Noemi Martinez, PO Box 621, Edinburgh TX 78540. email: noemi(at)hermanaresist dot com.
Kristin McPherson • yogamama (issue 1)
Kristin McPherson is the mother to 2 young boys and is anticipating the arrival of another child sometime in April 2005. Although she has decided that she likes doing yoga more than writing about it, remaining issues are available of the one and only yogamama. Kristin can be contacted at kristinforward(at)yahoo dot com.
Jessica Mills • Yard Wide Yarns (issues 2 • 3)
Jessica Mills started putting out her zine, Yard Wide Yarns, in 1993. Since the birth of her first child in 2000, she's also been writing a monthly column for Maximum Rock N Roll called "My Mother Wears Combat Boots". In the fall/winter of 2007, AK Press will publish her book of the same title. In addition to writing and mama-ing her two girls, Jessica plays tenor sax with different bands, makes silver jewelry at her home studio, sometimes teaches English, does office work at a free-standing birth center for licensed midwives, and is dedicated to anarchist principles being put into daily life action, organizing cooperative childcare, building community and progressive change for social justice. She can be reached by email at yardwideyarns(at)hotmail dot com.
Tomas Moniz • Rad Dad (issue 3)
Connie Murillo • The Red Pill (issue 3)
Coleen Murphy • Deep South Mouth (issues 1 • 2 • 3)
Coleen is a photobooth enthusiast living and writing in New Orleans with her two young boys. Her work has appeared in the pages of Hip Mama, The Edgy-catin' Mama, and the Seal Press anthology Breeder. Also, she self-publishes The Mama Calendar each December, as a community-building/consciousness-raising resource by and for progressive mamas (and their families) everywhere. The Deep South Mouth zine chronicles her family's frequent road trips among other things and can be ordered by sending $2 (or $8 for a 4 issue subscription) to: Coleen Murphy, PO Box 741655, New Orleans LA 70174. email: coleen(at)bust dot com. web: http://supercenter.blogspot.com
Nina Packebush • The Edgy-catin' Mama (issues 1 • 3)
Nina Packebush is a radical feminist, single homeschooling mama to two fantastic teenagers and one out of control seven-year-old. She lives in Washington state. The Edgy-catin' Mama is a radical feminist homeschooling zine. It is a zine for the "rest of us." Edgy is for those of us who don't quite fit the typical homeschooling stereotype. If you are single, working, lesbian, bi, poly, an activist, political, or feminist, then this zine is for you. If you freak out every now and then, swear on occasion, feel like running away from time to time, then Edgy is for you. If you have a tattoo or seven, a piercing or three, and if you don't own a single pair of Keds, then Edgy is your zine. To subscribe, send $10 to: Nina Packebush, 1102 Hiatt Ct, Sultan WA 98294, or email her at: edgycatinmama(at)aol dot com.
Jackie Regales • Esperanza (issue 1)
Jackie Regales is a writer, teacher and mama living in Baltimore, Maryland with her twin girls, partner and cat. She is no longer publishing Esperanza, but you can still find her writing in places like Hip Mama, hipmama.com, Mamalicious, and the anthology If Women Ruled the World. She has pieces forthcoming in other fine feminist outlets and is hard at work on several projects, one being a novel and another a book on motherhood and activism. She enjoys reading zines, seeing art, changing the world, and dancing around in butterfly wings with her daughters.
Lindsey Rock• Where Is My Mind? (issue 2)
Beth Sage-Weber • Letters to My Daughters (issue 1)
Fabiola Sandoval • Raising Ixchel (issue 2)
Fabiola Sandoval is a Xicana/writer/artist mama to an infant girl. She writes mostly for personal use to affirm the right to live and tell the fervor of love, struggle and survival. She has written for the anthology Nothing Held Back: Voices of WriteGirl, a project for inner city girls. She contributes to the Community Connection, a local community paper that advances social change, and is a zinester in the making for Raising Ixchel, among other ventures. She enjoys all things literary and creative endeavors like art, daydreaming, film, poetry, writing, media, salsa dancing, and engaging in issues she's passionate about.
Leslie Schneider • The Juggle (issue 2)
Leslie Schneider lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and two-year-old daughter and writes about the humor, absurdity, and constant balancing act involved in juggling two full-time jobs: mom and career woman. To order The Juggle, send $2.00 cash or trade to: PO Box 19971, Portland OR 97280, or email thejugglezine(at)gmail dot com.
Peggy Ann Sinclair • Baubo Bean (issue 1)
Kara Spencer • Viva La Mama! • Yo Mama Says the Parental is Political (issue 1)
Kara is a writer, massage therapist, doula, and hula hooper in Seattle, WA. She previously produced YoMamaSays.org, an activist parenting website and project of hipMama.com. Kara also contributes to Hooping.org, the website
for the underground hula hooping community. Her project, Mandala Hoops, designs custom hoops for fitness, meditation, performance, and play, and teaches workshops on hoopdance and hoopyoga. A licensed massage therapist, certified doula, and certified pregnancy massage therapist, Kara maintains a private practice in Seattle. Her writing has been published in Midwifery Today, BirthLove.com, SageWomen, AlterNet.org, hipMama.com, and Bare Your Soul: The Thinking Girl's Guide to Enlightenment. (Viva La Mama! is no longer being distributed.) email: maiahealingarts(at)gmail dot com. web: MaiaHealingArts.com
Jaala Spiro • Mad Lovin' Mama (issue 2)
Jaala Spiro is a hot mama from the northland, nearly as tall as a redwood tree, who agitates for social change, sews, knits, and reads while helping her kids cook legions of eggs they then refuse to eat. She is one of five contributing editors to Mad Lovin' Mama, your source for raw, funny, and powerful essays, reviews, and recipes around motherhood. To order a copy, email madlovinmama(at)yahoo dot com. Look us up at madlovinmama.com!
Cheryl Tapper • Merge Disorder (issue 1)
Cheryl lives in a house with a pink kitchen along with her husband, their son, and a neurotic Jack Russell Terrier. She did the zine Merge Disorder, which may or may not ever have another issue. You can email her at shesaloosecannon(at)yahoo dot com.
Gaynor Taylor • Caryatid Rises (issue 1)
Faith Void • Afterbirth (issue 1)
Regina Walker • Recovering Me (issues 2 • 3)
Regina Walker is the creator/editor of the zine Recovering Me. She can be reached at Recoveringme(at)aol dot com. Regina's work appears at The Philosophical Mother. Her work has also appeared in Hip Mama, widdershins, Literary Vision, and Moondance.
Jenna Weiss • Tenderfoot • (issues 1 • 3 • website)
Jenna lives in the suburban jungle of New Jersey. She thinks you should make a zine, too. Go on, now. • Tenderfoot is a sporadically-issued compilation zine about firsts. Contributors of all ages and types (mamas and non-mamas alike) are welcome, and contributed pieces can be of any genre. For more info, please see the (typically woefully out-of-date) website at http://www.tenderfootzine.com. email: tenderfootzine(at)gmail dot com
Are you a Mamaphiles mama and need to add or update your bio?
Please email jenna at tenderfootzine (at) gmail dot com.
last updated 12 december 2007