Pop-up: Notes to New Mothers
Editor Julie Buntin and contributors Cecily Wong and Chelsea Bieker read from their new anthology at Portland Art Museum in the Asian Art gallery.
Julie Buntin‘s debut novel, Marlena, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, released in ten territories worldwide, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen outlets, including The Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. She is the co-editor of Notes to New Mothers, a collection of dispatches from postpartum life by sixty writers and artists. Previously, Buntin was an editor and director of writing programs at Catapult. Now, she writes and teaches in Ann Arbor, where she is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. Famous Men is her latest novel.

Editor Julie Buntin and contributors Cecily Wong and Chelsea Bieker read from their new anthology at Portland Art Museum in the Asian Art gallery.
Novelists Julie Buntin and Emeline Atwood discuss themes of gender, power, and a relentless search for identity that permeate both of their most recent novels. With exquisite interiority, each main character grapples with loneliness, ambition, and the complex anxieties of coming of age. Moderated by author Kimberly King Parsons.